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Nasarwasalam, Iraq, January 30, 2005. Iraqi women set out to vote in the first free elections held in Iraq. Security for the polling site was provided by the Iraqi Security Force (ISF) and members of the US Marines Corps.
The Iraqi Constitution states that a quarter of the government must be made up of women. In the 1950s Iraq became the first Arab country to have a female minister and to have a law that gave women the ability to ask for divorces. [127] Women attained the right to vote and run for public office in 1980.
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Under the Iraqi constitution of 1925, Iraq was a constitutional monarchy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate. The lower house was elected every four years by manhood suffrage (women did not vote). The first Parliament met in 1925.
The vote is seen as a test of Iraq's young democracy - installed by the U.S. after the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 - before 2025 parliamentary polls that will determine the balance of power ...
The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907. Grand Duchy of Finland (An autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire) (first in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament as a result of 1905 Russian Revolution). [6] [7] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the ...
After attacks in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants attacking women and girls in their community. Iraq's all-female combat unit seeks revenge on Islamic State Skip ...
The first women's organization in Iraq was founded in 1923, and Iraqi women gained purchase in political and social spaces by participating strongly in the country's independence movement. From the beginning of the British occupation, through the mandate period , and up into the era of Iraqi independence (both pre- and post-revolution), women ...