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Kurdish woman activist calls for
unification of efforts to avoid "woman’s
marginalization in Iraq."
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December 26, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The former Environment
Minister in north Iraq’s Kurdistan government,
Nermin Othman, has called for unification of women
activities to face the campaigns aimed at
“marginalizing” women in Iraq, demanding all
political forces to implement the slogans they had
raised during the last nationwide elections,
regarding the women’s rights and to enable them
practice their role in the society.
“There is a common trend among women circles,
carrying different ideological principles, to stand
against keeping the women out of the new Iraqi
government,” Othman told Aswat al-Iraq news agency,
adding that Iraqi women “are trying to achieve joint
action, through an organized national campaign to
void the absence of women,www.ekurd.netthrough
launching pressure on different political parties,
demanding them to achieve the target they had raised
before the elections, regarding the political rights
of women.”
Nermin Othman, a leader in the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani, also said: “there is a political,
constitutional and ideological backwardness towards
the woman’s rights,” reiterating necessity to “join
and unify women activities,
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The former Environment Minister in north Iraq’s
Kurdistan government, Nermin Othman. |
concentrating on the
important goals for woman’s participation, not only
in the political process, but also in the State’s
legislative, judicial and executive institutions.”
“The political forces must remember that the woman
is half of the society, achieving several targets,
because she had suffered enough in facing the former
(Baath) regime,” confirming that “such role must
encourage her to contribute actively in the
political process, and not the opposite that had
taken place in the formation of the cabinet,
presented by Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to the
Parliament recently.”
Iraq’s women component in the Parliament had
protested the absence of women element in the new
Iraqi cabinet, but for one post, considered by the
Spokeswoman, Ala Talabani, in the Parliament’s
session on 21/12/2010 that witnessed the discussion
of the proposed cabinet, as a “constitutional
violence,” demanding the Iraqi President,
government, parliament and leaders of political
forces, to intervene to correct it.
Noteworthy is that Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki’s
previous cabinet, had included four women posts, and
Maliki had promised to treat the issue of women’s
absence in his new cabinet, during his resentation
of the remaining candidates for his 42-seat cabinet.
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