Posted by Sadie from ? (160.129.27.22) on Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 11:06AM :
In Reply to: B'dad: fear,sex violence and women abduction posted by Andreas from dtm2-t8-1.mcbone.net (62.104.210.78) on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 4:45PM :
I heard on BBC news or NPR the other day that 60% of Iraq's population is female &, if one calculates the percentage of females in Iraq using the CIA World Factbook (online) statistics, the percentage of females is 49% - a MAJORITY or HALF of the population is female. YET, the interim Iraqi governing entity ("Iraqi Council") that has recently been set up only includes 3 women in it out of 25 total members. This is RIDICULOUS!
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