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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.
All people should have equal dignity and rights.
Your parents fought bravely for your dignity and rights when you were a little girl of color in the South. That you can't be bothered with Iraqui women as you wear Armani suits and have political power to make the world a better place because you were blessed with an excellent education is so very sad.
The Iraqi women need a VOICE!!! Give them one NOW!!
Who else is going to speak for these women?! Speak on behalf of these women.
This draft constitution is going backward and not forward for women. We should be upholding international law regarding equal treatment for all peoples and not going backward, why are we there in the first place??
As a woman holding high office in the United States, you have a responsibility to the women of the world to look after their rights, and advocate as hard as humanly possible on behalf of women around the globe.
Sharia Law does not offer enough protection and equality to women in a society and places them in a disadvantaged position. A society in which the women are not happy and are not treated equally will never advance and never succeed. Women's happiness is the key to literacy and to happy families. Please make sure these women stay empowered to make the decisions that affect their lives.
Do your job; protect the rights of women in Iraq and thus the viability of their children in the future. Didn't you all tout your own virtues with this war, claiming to make people's lives better? Please make sure that you don' make anybody's life worse!
As a woman, I support anything that will aid women's rights in every country.
Please help the women of Iraq.
Why is there so much concern about the rights of religious and ethnic minority males in Iraq but none about the rights of the women? Aren't these women part of the Iraqi people?
whose rights are we fighting for in Iraq? if women don't count then neither should oil. stand up and use your power to help the Iraq's women.
The U.S. is just as responsible for the human rights for the rights of Iraqi women as well as Iraqui people.
I urge you Condaleezza Rice to advocate to protect the rights of women in Iraq by working with the Iraqi government to repeal Article 14 & guarantee womans rights under the law. The woman want their rights protected. We owe them their rights, just as we have not overlooked others rights.
You are a very powerful woman in this world and therefore there is something you can do to defend women't rights in Iraq!
Women's representation and their rights in Iraq's Draft Constitution and Sharia Law must be put through and enforced and guaranteed for all Iraqi Women.
Please advocate on behalf of Iraqu Women so that their fight for women's rights and representation will be yielded to and placed in the constitution. Many thanks!
Don't let them (us) be the invisible, silenced majority.
Iraqi women will lose a significant amount of the freedom that they have fought long and hard to win. This terrible war in Iraq HAS to have a better outcome for women.
Dear Secretary Rice, We, who are free, need for you to extend your powerful position to assist those women who may be faced with losing much that they and we have fought for. Please do everything possible to assist Iraqi women in maintaining their freedom.
we are all created equal--men and women
Secretary Rice, If we are fighting a war for democracy in Iraq as this administration keeps saying, then we had better stand up for all people, including women. Our soldiers are dying. It would be very sad and ironic if they are fighting for something less than rights for all people
The liberation of Iraq is supposed to bring freedom to all Iraqi people - not just the men!
Secretary Rice, You live in a country where you were allowed to have an education and make your dreams a reality. Please make the dream of freedom for Iraqi women a reality.
iT IS A STANDARD IN ALL ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO PUT WOMEN AT LEVEL OF FREEDOM THAT HAS NOT EXISTED SINCE THE 13TH CENTURY. IF THE SUNI'S HAVE THEIR WAY THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE THE WOMEN OF IRAQ WILL BE, THEY HAVE JUST WON INDEPENDENCE FROM THE BATHIST PARTY AND ITS TERRORISM, LET THEM MAINTAIN THEIR "WESTERN" STYLE FREEDOMS.
This new regime threatens to make women into mere chattel. Women's rights have to be included in the new constitution or the high sounding words of "Freedom and Democracy" are just a lie.
The US has the most power on this than any other country. Do the rigt thing this time.
there have been abuses in other countries such as stoning
so that an iraqi women could rise to the level that you have risen in this country.
Please help make sense of the maddness that has become Iraq; if women are not given proper rights and/or representation, how can we call our involvment in Iraq an attempt to spread democracy?