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The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Bagdad
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Injustice
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Peacetime

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