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KUWAIT & IRAQ
KUWAIT NEWS

Those encouraging Child Labor should be punished

Recently organized seminar by Kuwait Human Rights Society concluded
strict measures against those encouraging child labor, saying some parents
profit from the earnings of their young children who are supposed to be in
school. The speakers during the discussion held under the title ‘Kuwaiti
Charity Organizations and their Extended Support for Childhood’ rejected
the exploitation of young children and depriving them of their legally rights.
Dr. Siham Al-Fraih, Vice-President of the National Bureau of Human Rights
and President of the Kuwait Society for Child Protection, indicated that there
are many parties that help the campaign that has been launched under the
title ‘Towards a Safe Childhood’ by providing it with statistics, information
and figures on the conditions of these children, whose parents push them to
work to earn quick money at the expense of people’s sympathy for them.

Police permitted to use pepper spray in self-defense

The Assistant Undersecretary Public Security Sector, Major General
Farraj Al-Zoubi at the Ministry of Interior has issued a decision
allowing policemen to use pepper spray in self-defense or to protect
others from being attacked.
The decision specifies that policemen have the right to use pepper
spray in accordance with the following controls and cases; in cases of
self-defense against any attack on them; when dealing with any
person suspected of committing illegal acts or endanger himself and
the life of others; first alert the suspect or wanted person of use
pepper spray against him to comply and turn himself in; take caution
before and during the use of this substance; not to use it against the
person who is handcuffed and has complied with orders to turn
himself in.

IRAQ NEWS

Iraqi women joining Police Corps
THE DISCIPLINE OF
FASTING BREAKS YOU Iraqi police officer Saja al-Abayji in 2011 was only the second to see a

OUT OF THE WORLD’S selection of female officers graduate alongside hundreds of men to oversee
ROUTINE. – JENTEZEN policing and border control in the country. She hopes to one day see female
peers in leadership positions throughout the country’s internal security
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forces.
After about a decade of her joining, the 34-year-old is now a senior traffic
officer, having served for years in the General Traffic Directorate in the Iraqi
capital, Baghdad. Al-Abayji is one of hundreds of female officers who have
taken up a variety of roles in Iraq’s policing and border control.
Spokesman Major-General Saad Maan said the interior ministry started
encouraging women to join the internal security forces in 2010, not only for Source: france24.com, Arabtbusiness.com ,Gulfnews.com
what they could offer, but also to reflect the importance of expanding
women’s public role in Iraq.

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