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October 28, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan
Region-Iraq — Nearly 200 women from 40 women’s organizations
staged a demonstration in front of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG)
building in Erbil calling to amend a Personal Status Law article allowing
polygamy.
“We demand equality between men and women in the Personal Status Law,www.ekurd.net on
which the parliamentary legal committee is currently working,” one of the
organizers of the demonstration, Sayran Abdullah, told VOI.
“We are particularly against men’s polygamy. Law no. 62 of the year 2001
banned polygamy with the exception of certain cases,” Sayran, who is also a
member of Kurdistan’s Women Union, added.
Kurdistan Region Parliament held a session Monday to discuss the Personal
Status Code. At the beginning of the session, Speaker of the Kurdistan Region
Parliament, Adnan Mufti, presented the law for voting, and by the majority of
the voters they decided to discuss the draft law.
The committees of Human rights, endowment, parliament legal committee,www.ekurd.net and
women supporting committee read their reports, and the lawmakers expressed
their views about the article related to polygamy.
During the session the parliament by the majority vote decided that the
Conditional polygamy to remain in the draft law. It is expected that on
Tuesday, Kurdistan Region Parliament to continue discussing other articles of
the draft law.
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