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Iraq tries to help shake stigma of orphans

The Iraqi government and society must do more to end "honor killings" of women who give birth out of wedlock and to provide care and compassion for the children left behind.

Wassim Bassem
Wassim Bassem
Sep 21, 2015
Pediatrician Samira al-Alani examines an anencephalic child in an incubator in a Falluja hospital, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, August 26, 2013. Alarmed by a rise in congenital anomalies in her city of Falluja, al-Aani launched a petition calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to release what she says are data collected more than a year ago on birth defects rates caused by the US-led 2003 war on Iraq for independent analysis. Picture taken August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags - Ta
A pediatrician examines a child in an incubator in a Fallujah hospital, west of Baghdad, Aug. 26, 2013. — REUTERS/Saad Shalash

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