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28 Oct 2006 Gunmen broke into the house of an Iraqi women's rights campaigner and shot her dead in front of her three children, police have said. Human rights activists say the lives of women in Iraqi society have worsened dramatically since the US-led invasion of March 2003, amid a general break down in law and order and the rise of conservative Islamist militias.

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