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US-Appointed Council Abolishes Rights of Iraqi Women:
MADRE Supports International Campaign to Repeal Resolution 137
January 30, 2004 - New York. MADRE, an international women?s human rights organization, opposes the imposition of Islamic law on the people of Iraq by the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC). Under IGC Resolution 137, issued on December 29, 2003, arbitrary interpretations of religious law threaten to replace one of the Middle East?s most progressive civil codes. The Resolution gravely threatens women?s rights, undermines prospects for democracy and foments a dangerous sectarianism in an already destabilized society.
Resolution 137 could give self-appointed religious clerics the authority to inflict grave human rights violations on Iraqi women, including denial of the rights to education, employment, freedom of movement and travel, property inheritance and custody of their children. Forced early marriage, polygamy, compulsory religious dress, wife beating, female genital mutilation, execution by stoning as punishment for female adultery and public flogging of women for disobeying religious rules could all be sanctioned if the Resolution is upheld.
http://www.madre.org/art_iraq_resolution137.html
US-Appointed Council Abolishes Rights of Iraqi Women:
MADRE Supports International Campaign to Repeal Resolution 137
January 30, 2004 - New York. MADRE, an international women?s human rights organization, opposes the imposition of Islamic law on the people of Iraq by the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC). Under IGC Resolution 137, issued on December 29, 2003, arbitrary interpretations of religious law threaten to replace one of the Middle East?s most progressive civil codes. The Resolution gravely threatens women?s rights, undermines prospects for democracy and foments a dangerous sectarianism in an already destabilized society.
Resolution 137 could give self-appointed religious clerics the authority to inflict grave human rights violations on Iraqi women, including denial of the rights to education, employment, freedom of movement and travel, property inheritance and custody of their children. Forced early marriage, polygamy, compulsory religious dress, wife beating, female genital mutilation, execution by stoning as punishment for female adultery and public flogging of women for disobeying religious rules could all be sanctioned if the Resolution is upheld.
http://www.madre.org/art_iraq_resolution137.html