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Appeal to remove Article No 7 from the
Kurdistan regional constitution
22.1.2007 |
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To remove Article No 7 from
the Kurdistan regional constitution!
Please send letters to support our campaign to
remove Article No 7 from the proposed constitution
for Kurdistan
January 22, 2007
To all women's group, secularist organisations,
trade unions and political activists, we need your
help to prevent Islamic Sharia law being implemented
in Kurdistan.
In December, we declared a campaign to repeal
Article 7 from the proposed constitution of
Kurdistan. In our view, Article 7 clearly states
that Islam is the main official religion, and that
laws should be based on it.
As we said then, this will only lead to the
violation of the most fundamental and basic
liberties of the people of Kurdistan, and most of
all undermine the rights and freedoms of women. We
thank all of you who have already signed our
petition: you have been a great support for our
campaign. Here is the link to our petition again:
http://www.petitiononline.com/15122006/petition.html
please forward it to all your lists if you can.
Now we are asking organisations and activists to
write letters in support of our campaign to repeal
Article 7 and in favour of the
separation of religion from the state and education,
as well as equality and freedom for women.
Please send your letters of support to one of the
following email addresses:
The initiators of this campaign:
- Houzan Mahmoud: representative abroad of
Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (and
campaign coordinator):
houzan73@yahoo.co.uk
- Marywan Halabjaee: Writer and researcher:
halabjaee@maktoob.com
- Sozan Shahab: Member of Kurdistan Parliament:
susanshahab@hotmail.com
- Nadir Abdul Hameed: political personality living
in Denmark: nadr1506@yahoo.com
- Goran Abdulla: coordinator of Dangakan.com
website: dangakan@yahoo.ca
- Sakar Ahmad: activist and writer of a book titled
"Victims of Honour Crimes": sakar_a@yahoo.com
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