Al-Nidal issues the first quarterly report on the situation of women in Iraq
Women's rights in Iraq: between the hammer of societal norms and the anvil of enforced laws
The Al-Nidal Association’s report for the first quarter of the year 2023 highlights the violations that were monitored, documented, and addressed in order to diagnose the weaknesses and identify most of the violations that women are exposed to in Iraq, including murders, violence of all kinds, electronic blackmail, the marriage of minors, and others, and to highlight the weaknesses in law enforcement and allowing impunity. Who Punishment for murder is called washing away shame.
In addition to the legislative gap resulting from the incompatibility of national laws with international principles guaranteeing human rights and the rights of women in particular, as well as the inadequacy of some legal articles that are still in effect in old legislation that allow violations to occur, and in return, the dominance of tribal rulings and their supremacy over the law in areas A wide area of Iraq and the deteriorating economic situation of women, which hinders them from claiming or defending their full rights. The association also put forward some recommendations that contribute to addressing major details and reducing these violations to which women in Iraq are constantly exposed. This is what prompted us to issue the report and address the details and most prominent events during the past three months, and to confirm the above through statistics documented by the association’s monitoring teams with details, numbers, and stories of some of the survivors. The crimes and violations varied as follows: (assault, harassment of all kinds at home and in the workplace, Physical violence, electronic blackmail, denial of access to education, kidnapping, sexual assault, death threats, domestic violence, deprivation of economic resources, deprivation of inheritance, marriage of minors).
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