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The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) is another Non-governmental organization committed to the defense of women's rights in Iraq. It has been very active in Iraq for several years, with thousands of members, and it is the Iraqi women's rights organization with the largest international profile.
The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq was founded as a way to advocate for these issues and provide protection for vulnerable and at risk women. To aid women in jeopardy of honor killings, limited employment options, limited access to health [ 7 ] or civil protections, [ 6 ] and other acts of violence, the organization has developed ...
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 . Part of a series on
Upon her return to Iraq, Mohammed founded a group to promote the rights of women in post-Saddam Iraq, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq after she had founded a women's group previously in Canada under the name the Defence of Iraqi Women’s Rights. She also edited the feminist newsletter Al-Mousawat. [5]
The club was eventually replaced as the main women's organisation by the Women's League Against Fascism or al-Rabita (later known as League for the Defense of Women's Rights or Rabita al-Difa an Huquq al-Mara), founded in 1943, [6] and the Iraqi Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisai al-Iraqi), founded in 1945 after the Arab Women's Congress in ...
The Iraqi Women's Union (IWU) was a women's advocacy group founded in 1945 which lasted until the Iraqi government crackdown on leftist organizations in the late 1950s. [1] Throughout the course of its operation, the IWU focused on advocating on behalf of key women's issues regarding education, marriage rights, and labour rights, while equally ...
Hanaa Edwar was born to a Christian family in the Southern city of Basra, Iraq.She earned a degree in law from Baghdad University in 1967. [1] At age 26, Hanaa Edwar had left for Eastern Berlin to be a representative for the Iraqi Women Association at the International World Federation of Democratic Women. [2]
Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 – 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League, [2] the first woman minister in modern Iraq history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.