David Cortright and Anna Romandash

Author Bio

David Cortright is chair of the Board of Directors of the Fourth Freedom Forum and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books on issues of peace, conflict prevention, and disarmament.

Anna Romandash is the Fourth Freedom Forum’s first Howard S. Brembeck Fellow and an award-winning journalist from Ukraine.

July 7, 2025

Women’s Rights are Key for the U.S. Policy Toward Iraq

Twenty years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, women’s rights are nowhere near where they should be. The fall of the dictatorship did not bring about the much-advertised “women’s liberation”. Quite the opposite, the two…

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