Iraq still a mess, says rights group - USA/Terrorism/AI report
18/3/08
The human rights situation in Iraq five years after the US- led invasion is “disastrous”, Amnesty International says. Five years after the US-led invasion that toppled the former president, Saddam Hussein, Iraq was one of the most dangerous countries in the world, Amnesty said in a 24-page report. Law and order and economic recovery were a “distant prospect” while most Iraqis were living in poverty, with food shortages, lack of access to safe drinking water and high unemployment, said the report, Carnage and Despair: Iraq Five Years On. More than four in 10 Iraqis lived on less than $US1 a day, with the health and education systems near collapse and women and girls at risk of violence from extremists.