Mothers of All Battles

THE WAR WIDOWS OF THE IRAQ INVASION - JUNE 23RD, TRAFALGAR SQUARE – LONDON, England.

Tony Benn and other speakers to be announced will be with us on the steps of St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar square, at 3 pm on June 23rd when we read out the names of Iraqi widows and draw attention to this hidden and grossly neglected issue. We await these names now coming from our colleagues in Iraq.

Uncounted numbers of Iraqi women are now widows or wives of the disappeared.

Sole supporters of families - children, elderly, sick, wounded, traumatized they are living in extreme poverty, and as women alone vulnerable to human rights abuses of all kinds, causing irrevocable damage and deprivation of rights to their children.

There is barely a family in Iraq today that is not a family of widows - across the generations.

These women are key players in Iraq's recovery from years of oppression. Their roles must be recognized, their needs addressed and their voices heard.

Please join us on Friday June 23rd, at 3 pm, on International Widows Day, when we will be reading out the names of Iraqi widows on the steps of St. Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar square. Please bring placards and banners!

Margaret Owen
Widows for Peace and Democracy