RACE RELATIONS BLOG: Iraqi women demand rights in country's new constitution

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Iraqi women demand rights in country's new constitution


BAGHDAD -- Women from different Iraqi rights groups met here on Monday to issue a list of demands that they believe would guarantee women's rights in the country's new constitution.
The informal group issued a statement demanding that Islamic law, or Sharia, not be one of the sources of the constitution; that Iraq should abide by all international rights treaties and that all Iraqi men and women have equal legal rights

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