by Hind al-Safar and Zaineb Naji, IWPR, Iraq - Firdaw al-Baghdadi has not seen her husband in three years. He was abducted in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and although his family paid a ransom for his release, they never heard from the captors again. Baghdadi, 38, from Baghdad’s Shia suburb Sadr City, cannot find work and her own relatives are too poor to help out, so she lives with her husband's family in cramped conditions. “I don't know what to do,” she said. “Tradition prevents women from working, especially women like me.”