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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.
To deny anyone there god given human rights would be a crime against them and those who supposedly are fighting and dying for freedom.
Show the world that our troops ARE there for FREEDOM. And stand up for the rights of ALL Iraqi people.
Dear Secretary Rice; My question to YOU oin this matter is this. When we elect a NEW president in 2008,Would YOU like to see YOUR rights go back to 1954? I don't yhink so. Nor would I.
The Iraqi women have been free of this bunch of nonsensical "laws" which firbid them to show their faces, vote, drive cars, hold political offices,and much more, for several decades _even under Saddam. Please intervene on their behalf. Sincerely, Hersh Walker
"Liberations" are supposed to bring liberty and "democracy" is supposed to bring rights, not medieval islamic laws ...
"Liberations" are supposed to bring liberty and "democracy" is supposed to bring rights, not medieval islamic laws ...
I bet that the women of Iraq feel that they have been pushed out of the frying pan and into the fire. Iraqi women are worse off now that they were under Hussein.
Women are the peacemakers and mothers of the world. How can a woman help to make peace when she has no rights, can be bought and sold like chattel, can be raped, murdered, deprived of any type of liberty?
Women in Iraq have been oppressed for too many years. Freedom of rights should extend to every citizen, man or woman equally.
What if your right as a woman were taken away or not given to you under a new constitution. I feel quite certain you would not be happy. Leave the rights for woman intact!
I am starting to believe that everyhting that we heard about Iraq was a lie so that you and Pr. Bush could have unlimited reign to take over Iraq for your own purpose. Let's at least leave the rights in tact that they had. We have become the terrorists We are no better than Nazi Germany
Ms. Rice you, being a woman should know how important womens rights are. Look at where you've gotten because of the rights that you now are thinking of taking away from other women. It is sad and hypocritical "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" I guess the Dictatorship that PR. Bush wants is beginning. Remember...Liberty and Justice FOR ALL. You are losing popularity and trust of the American Public and unless you change your actions back to FREEDOM you will loose what little loyalty you have left.
Secretary Rice, the liberation of Iraq, for which so many have given their lives is for all Iraqi people, not just men. Article 14 of the constitution would undo this, have you given up loyalty to your sex for higher office?
I, Barbara Cavender, believe it is your duty, nay, your obligation to assure Iraqi men and women the same rights.
All are One, all harm harms each of us, all blessings bless each of us.
All are One, all harm harms each of us, all blessings bless each of us.
If one person is denied rights then all of us are denied as well. There can't be freedom for only few it has to be for all.
It's obvious that women's situation in Iraq hasn't changed after the war, and it will probably worsen now!
I am in favor of equal rights!
Under Saddam Hussein, with all his brutal faults, Iraqi women enjoyed the MOST RIGHTS of any women in the Middle East: jobs and professions outside the home, equal education, no veil unless optional, and more. What an irony, that after all the bloodshed of a U.S. invasion and occupation, the clock should turn BACK -- all the way to the Middle Ages -- for Iraq's women! They are RIGHTLY incensed at the U.S.
It is a total myth, that Iraqi women needed "liberating" by the U.S. It is the SAUDI women, our Allies, who are not allowed to go out without veils, drive cars, or live normal 21st-century lives! Now Iraqi women have been raped, abused, tortured, and murdered by U.S. troops -- all so that the clock can be turned BACK for them, to the Dark Ages, and they LOSE the rights they HAD, that WERE EQUAL to those of western non-Muslim women!
onemillionreasons.org We have likely done much more harm than good, and we should leave Iraq ASAP and support the United Nations efforts on behalf od women everywhere.
You know this horrendous plan - the BushINc. complicity in 911 and invasion of Iraq has all been a horrible disator for our country. the neocons' dream is America's and the world's nightmare!