Post #5: More Iraq Situations

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I was in Russia for spring break so I was a little bit...preoccupied. Anyways these notes are a continuation from the source I used in Post #2. It focuses mainly on Iraqi women and their rights.

- In 1959-Civil Status Law, progressed marriage, custody, education and healthcare for women

-After Saddam’s rule however women’s literary rates in Iraq plummeted

-After Saddam’s end the women turn to the clerics, seeing them as good people,

-In 2003 there were big expectations for women’s rights in Iraq

-After April 2003: “They didn't wait for anybody to tell them what to do or how to do it. They started to figure out how to apply for funding, they pushed to have conferences, they pushed to be active, and this was in all segments--religious conservative women, as well as secular women.”

-They were further motivated by that fact that in In December 2003, very quietly, Islamists tried to pass a decree that would have abolished the 1959 personal status civil law and replaced it with religious law.

-Women’s groups successfully pushed back the first attempt quickly, but SCIRI (a party of the Shii’a coalition wouldn’t give up

-It was a conflict between liberals and Islamists

This information proves that women in Iraq are trying to move forward, but the Islamists are against women gaining rights, as they believe their religion requires women to be submissive to their husbands. There are liberals in Iraq that want to help women gain the rights the liberals feel they deserve and that there have been modern/recent attempts at gaining Iraq women furthur rights in their country.