This short clip features Ms. Eman Ahmad Khamas, a journalist, translator and human rights activist who lives in Baghdad with her husband and two daughters. She is a member of the Women's Will organization, which focuses on defining and defending women's rights outside of political party interests and opposing incarceration of women as hostages. Ms. Khamas regularly publishes articles on women's conditions in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, and has documented human rights violations committed by US and Iraqi forces. She is also involved in mobilizing emergency relief (medicines, food and clothing) for victims of the war, especially women and children living in refugee camps.
In March 2006 six Iraqi women toured the United States at the invitation of Code Pink - Women Say No To War. They participated in several joint appearances in New York and Washinton DC and then went individually to many parts of the country, speaking to high school students, community groups, church groups, on college campuses, met with active duty GIs and veterans and with parents whose soldier sons and daughters were killed in Iraq. Their purpose: to explain to the American people the reality of the war, the horrendous consequences it is taking on the people of Iraq, to plead for Americans to demand their government stop the war, stop the killing, and end the occupation.
