Iraqi Women Make Rare Trip to U.S. to Tell Their Stories of Life Under Occupation
* Faiza Al-Araji, a civil engineer and blogger. She is a religious Shia with a Sunni husband, and mother of three. After one son was recently held as a political prisoner by the Ministry of the Interior, the family fled to Jordan. Her blog is afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com
* Eman Ahmad Khamas, journalist, translator and activist. She is a member of the Women's Will organization, which focuses on defining and defending women's rights. For the past three years she has been documenting crimes committed by US and Iraqi forces. She is the former Director of International Occupation Watch Center Baghdad. She is married with two daughters and lives in Baghdad.
* Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink that organized the delegation of Iraqi women.
* Eman Ahmad Khamas, journalist, translator and activist. She is a member of the Women's Will organization, which focuses on defining and defending women's rights. For the past three years she has been documenting crimes committed by US and Iraqi forces. She is the former Director of International Occupation Watch Center Baghdad. She is married with two daughters and lives in Baghdad.
* Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink that organized the delegation of Iraqi women.
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