Archive for July 18th, 2011

18/07/2011

What Future For Iraq?

Human Wrongs Watch

The price of the U.S-led invasion and occupation of Iraq since 2003 —which is paradoxically called Operation Freedom for Iraq— is usually calculated in dollars. What about its human cost?

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The following are just some facts about Iraqi youth and children according to UN reports:

Over 57% of youth are unemployed; enrolment in secondary education is only 21%, and around 700,000 children are not enrolled in primary school.

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