Iraqi women’s rights activist: “Fighting for survival and human dignity”
Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), spoke to Martin Thomas when she visited Britain at the end of June. What does the OWFI do? For example, what were you doing in Baghdad in the week before you came to Britain? Last week we started something new. In spite of our work for equality and a secular constitution, we know that if we do not do the daily outreach to women and people in general, if we are not becoming a social movement, then we are not getting anywhere. We decided to do what we call a Thursday Evening. The name in Arabic means “Women’s...