Iraqi women's plight worsens (poll shows better under Saddam)

[sabra]

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=ERBE-04-17-06

Iraqi women's plight worsens


A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women's-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.

This is doubly troubling. It's troubling first, because the Bush administration used the issue of women to justify its now widely criticized invasion of Iraq in part by promising to improve the situation of women.

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The poll was released last week by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a U.N. news agency covering sub-Saharan Africa, eight countries in central Asia, and Iraq.

IRIN reports the survey findings as follows: "...women's basic rights under the Hussein regime were guaranteed in the constitution and more importantly respected, with women often occupying important government positions. Now, although their rights are still enshrined in the national constitution, activists complain that, in practice, they have lost almost all of their rights."

Moreover, leaders of women's groups say that in Iraq's new government, more men in power follow conservative Shari'a (to wit, Islamic law) on women's rights and on their role in society. Senar Muhammad, president of the Baghdad-based non-government organization Woman Freedom Organization, is quoted by IRIN as saying, "When we tell the government we need more representation in parliament, they respond by telling us that, if well-qualified women appear one day, they won't be turned down. ... Then they laugh at us."

[rodeodance]

1. not surprizing. yet Bush always says how women are so much better off.

[Democrats_win]

2. People knew this would happen--yet the POS POTUS didn´t listen Now he lies

[UpInArms]

3. The Leaker-in-Chief doesn't give a rat's ass about women's rights,

human rights, the Constitution, the Geneva Convention, the environment or anything other than his absolute right to power.

IMPEACH THE LYING BASTARDS AND THROW THEM INTO THE HAGUE!

[Demeter]

4. Women Ate Better Under Saddam, and Their Children Didn't Get

blown up, either. Bah!

[Beaverhausen]

5. This needs to be reported far and wide

Will it? No way.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Send it to KO

[Zenlitened]

7. K & R.

It's a crime what's happening to Iraqi women. Thay are being dragged back into the Dark Ages by the religious fundamentalists Bush's Folly has unleashed.

:(

[otohara]

8. Notice The Disclaimer The End....

Please don't take this news as an endorsement on my part of Saddam's regime. He was a bloodlust-ful dictator who deserves the same treatment he visited on dissidents: torture and death. But, that does not mean that some things were not better for Iraqis while he was power.


WE COULD KILL EVERY LIVING THING IN IRAQ AND THE MEDIA WOULD STILL SAY....BUT, BUT, IRAQ IS STILL BETTER OFF WITHOUT SADDAM.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. This, for the RW fundies, is a success. -nt

[stanwyck]

10. Our First Lady needs to speak up on this issue

that's her job. She's our First Lady. And she needs to quit playing the librarian (which she was for about five minutes) and show some dignity. Rosalyn Carter would have spoken out.
But maybe Laura Bush is too busy ending gang violence...

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. EVERYTHING was better under Saddam, no?

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sure - he was not a "nice" guy from what I've heard

but "under" Bush

It's much worse over there

Welcome to the PNACer's version of democracy

Soon to be in your own neighborhood in Amerikkka

Think "HS" - the American version of the "SS"

Prescott Bush taught his offspring well

(sigh)

[Kurovski]

12. I can just here the idiot fuckwad Freepers now...

"The woman of Iraq love Saddam Hussien!", they'll crow in their typical bullshitty mind-fucker fashion. :eyes: