{"id":904,"date":"2023-03-31T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=904"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:44:35","slug":"50-22-iraq-invasion-20-how-us-control-affected-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"#50-22 Iraq Invasion +20 &#8230;\u00a0How US control affected women&#8217;s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yanar Mohammed is co-founder and Chair of the Organization of Women&#8217;s Freedom in Iraq. Founded in 2003, OWFI provides shelters, schools, jobs, a newspaper and radio programs to help and strengthen women in Iraq and advocate for their rights. Marge May, a host of the program Women&#8217;s Windows on community radio WERU-FM, interviewed Yanar in 2005.\u00a0 On returning to Iraq in 2003 after years in Canada, Yanar was shocked by the massive infrastructure destruction, impunity for murderers of women, and a US-imposed political system that gave power to male leaders of sects and factions and had no room for women&#8217;s secular issues or representation. For more on OWFI today, visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/owfiraq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">owfiraq.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-50-22WomenIraq-28_58-128kbps.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-50-22WomenIraq-28_58-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attached photo from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/owfiraq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">owfiraq.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanar Mohammed is co-founder and Chair of the Organization of Women&#8217;s Freedom in Iraq. Founded in 2003, OWFI provides shelters,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,39,27,202,36,162,42,155,60,65,54,203,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-feminism","category-health","category-iraq","category-politics","category-public-health-and-safety","category-regional","category-religious-repression-opression","category-society-and-culture","category-spirituality-and-religion","category-united-states","category-war","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}