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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.
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.
With an estimated population of 22,675,617 women, Iraq is a male dominated society. [32] On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, a coalition of 17 Iraqi women's rights groups formed the National Network to Combat Violence Against Women in Iraq. [33] Yanar Mohammed at the Die Linke conference in Berlin in 2013
The new government was faced with two major tasks. The first was to attempt to rein in a violent insurgency, which had blighted the country in recent months, killing many Iraqi civilians and officials as well as a number of American troops. (As of mid-2005, approximately 135,000 American troops remained in Iraq with 2,214 American soldiers killed.)
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 ...
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.
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 ...