WOMEN'S DELEGATION January 24 - February 4, 2004


CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans is heading an all women's delegation to Iraq.  They meet with representatives of a variety of Iraqi women's organizations that are working on issues ranging from creating income-generating projects for women to organizing shelters for victims of domestic violence to raising women's concerns in the writing of the new constitution. They'researched how women are faring under US occupation, met with US authorities and Iraqi officials to learn how their plans affect Iraqi women. In addition to the formal meetings, the met with women in their homes, at the university and in the markets. They returned and are currently reporting on the Status of Woman under the US Occupation. Click on the links below for news coverage of the delegation: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=012304e1_iraq_visit http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/mideast/7181.php http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0218-05.htm

Check out the CODEPINK blog at http://codepink.utne.com/ to read journal entries from women on this delegation.?

Click here to view a photo journal.


Go to http://www.motherspeak.org?to read more from delegation member and "military mom" Susan Galleymore.

To listen to Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink , give an eyewitness report on the effect of the war on Iraqi women (with an introduction by Yonton Gonpa), click? the link below.??Brought to you by Panhandle Community Radio in northern Idaho.?

http://www.panhandleradio.org/light/i_osp.htm