Occasional Paper 15: Iraq Women's Rights Under Attack
Occupation, Constitution and Fundamentalisms
Nadje Al-Ali, Mubejel
Baban, and Sundus Abass (Published: December 2006)
This Occasional Paper features recent activities of
Act Together, one of WLUML's networking organisations based in the UK. In July
2006 Act Together, Women's Action for Iraq, hosted Sundus Abass, Director of
Women in Leadership Institute (Baghdad) in London for 15 days. WLUML helped to
make the visit possible, as part of various network activities in support of
women in post-conflict situations, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka.
This publication is a record of some of the activities that happened during
those 15 hectic days. The aim of the visit was to highlight the work that Iraqi
women are doing to try to amend the new Iraqi Constitution, in particular to
ensure that the pre-existing Iraqi Personal Status Law, one of the more
egalitarian family laws in the Middle East, is not replaced by Article 41.
The publication includes:
· Three talks that were given at a
public meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in
London
· The translated edited transcript of a film was by Maysoon Pachachi,
of a two-hour discussion in Arabic between three highly experienced Iraqi women
activists
· Briefing paper for Parliamentarians
· Act Together grassroots
action
leaflets