"Honour killings" and the oppression of women

7 March 2011. A World to Win News Service. It has been nearly four years since Doa Khalil, a 17-year-old woman in Iraqi Kurdistan, was stoned to death by her relatives to protect the "family honour". This dreadful act shocked those who saw the clips of the scene recorded on mobile phones and circulated on the Internet. It dramatically demonstrated the ongoing oppression of women in a patriarchal world.

Since then an increasing number of young women ...

Falluja: the U.S. keeps killing after its troops have moved on


10 January 2011. A World to Win News Service. Two recent medical studies compare the long-term  effects of the U.S.-led assaults on Falluja in 2004 to what the U.S. inflicted on Vietnam – and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The U.S.-led invaders moved into this town of a few hundred thousand people just north-west of Baghdad in April 2003 and took over a local secondary school to use as their headquarters. On the evening of 28 April sever...