Aid for Iraqi war widows in jeopardy - 24 Feb 09

Decades of conflict and instability have created a new group in the Iraqi society war widows. Out of one and a half million of them, just over half of them receive help from the government and the budget allocated for aid has recently been cut. The lack of resources to help widows led the minister in charge of women's affairs to resign in protest. Al Jazeera's Nazanin Sadri reports.

AlJazeera | February 24, 2009

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