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Stand Up for Iraqi Women
Target: Secretary of State Condoleezza RiceSponsored by: Womens Funding Network
Women in Iraq have more to fear these days than the horrors of war. As the August 15 deadline approaches for the completion of the new Iraqi constitution, women in Iraq fear that their hard-won rights could disappear.
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Iraq, January 30, 2005: Women waiting to vote in elections. (Photo courtesy U.S. Embassy Baghdad.) |
A renewed interpretation of Sharia law would turn back the clock on women's rights in Iraq. As the occupier of Iraq, the United States is obligated to uphold international law guaranteeing human rights for all Iraqi people, including the full range of rights for women.
Stand up for Iraqi women! Send a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today and urge her to advocate to protect the rights of women in Iraq by working with the Iraqi government to repeal Article 14 and guarantee women's rights under the law.
The Iraqi constitution must include provisions for equal rights for all citizens. Iraq can never be considered a democracy unless the women have an equal voice.
Secretary Rice...Iraqi women need your strong voice to send a message on their behalf. Please call for equal representation under the Iraqi constitution for the Iraqi women.
I thought the whole reason we were over in Iraq was for freedom. Women's rights in the middle east are few and far between, why would you take a step backwards in a country that already has laws for women?
It's funny how, if we took away women's rights in America it would be against our democracy, but I guess it's alright to do it in another country. Don't you realize that the ONLY reason you're in the position you're in today is because someone fought, and we got our rights? Why would you take them away from someone else?
I am concerned about the rights of the women of Iraqnam because they are being murdered by the most repressive and repulsive president in the history of our once great nation and you are working for him!
Oppression of women must stop everywhere if the human race is to make any progression.
The black man got the right to vote after the civil war but women a few scant 75 years ago. After all we have stood for how can we let then go back to everything we abhor as free citizens. Otherwise, it seems just like the reason we, the US, of all civilized countries has not elected a female President. Are we going to stand for them or let them cave as we have on women leading this once glorious country. I know people are still dying every day to get in this country, and it is one of the few countries I would choose to live in. I am the local democratic representative to my tiny town of 2000 people, mostly Republican. My job for the last election was to get out the voe. We got over 50% of the total voters out on Election Day, but the Dems got over 70% of our vote out. I had to cede the win to George W, and accept the will of the people. I had to follow his leadership for this country. You now have an enormous amount of influence. I don't want our gender to force us to act differently than we should, but I do appeal to your sense of right and wrong with the exclusion of womens rights in Iraq.
Dear Ms. Rice, You have the capability to influence the outcome of this historic document and therby improve the conditions of all women in the Middle East by helping to serve as a role model for other volatile nations. Iraqi women used to be among the most educated, making up large portions of their scientific communities. But now it would be easier to just stick a burka with duct tape over them? Kind of like the Afghanis have been doing lately. So sad to treat half of your population as stupid. I would hold some ground on this issue if you were free to choose. And isn't that what all our present day freedoms are about? What if you were a 14-18 yr-old Iraqi girl now? Could she ever become what you have? WOuld she ever have the opportunities you've had? As an out of work mechanical engineer, working 17 years in defense and energy communities, my peerage was 95% male on a day to day basis. Working in that environment is trying enough, please don't make it forbidden for our, or the Iraqi's brightest female minds. I don't ask this of you as a woman, but as a human being who has a strong sense of right and wrong. You cannot perpetuate what you would not put up with yourself. Respectfully yours, A vested member in the Democratic Process that our country was founded on to be the best way to lead a country, Kathryn A. Ingle-Rosario ktnakl1@comcast.net p.s. the pleasure of a response would be most welcome. Enjoy your day.
every woman should be free to be who they are.
the women right now are being sent back to the stone ages with the ridiculous invasion that you touted. it is your duty to these women that you make things right with them and work non-stop to ensure these women will once again secure the right to walk safely in the streets without the fear of being rapes. it is your duty to these women to ensure that they have access to a good education, including university education in the math and sciences as they had under saddam hussein, and that they be permitted to be employed in the highest positions of the governmental cabinet.
since you, secretary rice, instigated the problem that these iraqi women now face with the vietnam like invasion of their country, it is your duty to these women to correct your wrongdoings.
Women of all cultures, should have certain rights and choices no one should have the authority to take them away.
Secretary Rice please healp the women of Iraq to get them the rights that we women the same rights that we women got her in the good ol's USA. They have been too long with out rights of any kind.
Please do not let womens rights deteriorate after they have fought so hard.
As a woman you have a responsibility to fight for the women of Iraq, please fight against a reduction of womens rights in Iraq, it would be a huge step backwards!
Secretary Rice, I urge you to allow the progression of Iraq to be a slow progression with the Reconstruction Process. Your interference is not welcome and is endangering the lives of the Iraqi Women and inciting more attacks from the Insurgency.
I strongly urge our government officials not to Intrude into a Culture we are not accustomed to understand. I strongly urge the U.S. to mind its own business. And to allow our diplomats to negotiate for Peace with tolerance for Iraq to establish its own Democracy within its own culture and environment.
Your administration has endangered the lives and future of all Iraqi women because you did not think the "PDB" was important - consequently, you aided and abetted in the invasion of a sovereign nation that was not a threat to the U.S. - until now, of course.
Condi, how would you like to wear a black burkah in 180 degrees in the shade and get beaten by your husband in public, not be "permitted" to attend school, play the piano at the age of three or rise to the level of National Security Advisor, let alone Secretary of State?
Separation of church and state should be the one major policy of the US concerning this shift to a new Iraq. IF WOMEN LOSE THE VOTE AND THEIR RIGHTS, THIS IRAQ WAR WILL BE THE BIGGEST FAILURE IN MODERN HISTORY. Thousands of US lives lost, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives lost, and for what? THE FUELING OF RADICALISM THROUGH AN UNFAIR AND UNJUST CONSTITUTION.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS IMPERATIVE!
It is time for the chains of these women to be released.
As a woman, I believe that you feel strongly on this matter and will do the right thing.
Democracy in Iraq must be for everyone -both women and men.
Women here have that right, so please Mrs. Rice give it to the Iraqi women as well. Why should they be behind the times hmm? You can make a difference for the good for them.
Democracy in Iraq must be for everyone -both women and men. If women do not have an equal voice in governing, equal opportunities for education and careers, the changes we seek in this struggle will not be realized.
Women in Iraq should have the freedom to educate, to have rights to work in the same level than men. Women should have the equal rights!
Help them!
I feel that all women all over the world should unite in defence of Iraqi women
Dear Secretary Rice, Every women on this planet has to have her own rights to ruel over her body, soul and life. Warm regards Lea Launokari
I want you as a women to work for all the Iraqi women for a human rights.