The Wire

Women are experiencing danger from all sides in Iraq…and no one is taking responsibility for their security and proper protection. The incidence of rape, abduction, abuse in prison guards, and killing of women is widespread. And like all civilians, women are in constant danger from the actions of US forces as the Americans are trying desperately to defeat the resistance to their occupation. MADRE is a US based women-run human rights organisation. Communications director Yifat Susskind says it was actually a female prisoner who exposed the situation in Abu Graib prison.