Children are being forced into work and early marriage in Iraq, as war continues to scar the country 20 years after the 2003 invasion ✒️by mollyblackall
Sarra Ghazi, Iraq country director for Save The Children, said that the country was still in “crisis” two decades after US-led coalition troops including the British Army invaded, with significant risks to children.
Around 10 per cent of Iraq’s population – an estimated 4.1 million people – are still in need of humanitarian assistance, with nearly a third living in poverty. More than a million Iraqis are still displaced within the country, unable to return to their homes due to dangers, instability or lack of infrastructure.
“Twenty years of insecurity and limited economic opportunities have taken a very heavy toll on families across the country. Many are having to resort to negative coping strategies such as child labour. Children aren’t being able to go to school, which just repeats the cycle,” she toldMs Ghazi recently met Zainab, a 14-year-old girl whose family fled their home in Mosul during conflict and moved to Kirkuk.
“You see this thirst and this hunger for learning, and they’ll do anything they can to be able to get to school,” Ms GhaziMs Ghazi said that global economic pressures felt around the world after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were compounding the existing crises within Iraq. “Economically, globally, things are very difficult, prices have gone up. And Iraq is is no different to any other country. But what compounds the problem in Iraq is the displacement. People are struggling with where to live, how to live, how to make ends meet. It just compounds all the challenges,” she said.
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