Sex slave girls face cruel justice in Iraq
Iraq have been going through this for a while, since the installation of the sanctions in early 1990, this started to happen, but these days it went into higher scale. and now its a major issue in Iraq.
Source: CNN
Fifteen-year-old Zeina's sad journey to prison began two years ago when she says was sold into sex slavery. "My father came and took me to go visit my grandfather in Syria," says Zeina, "and I went with him."
The family trip turned out to be a cover story, and Zeina found herself faced with the most horrific possible reality. She says she was then forcefully taken from Syria to the United Arab Emirates and sold into sexual slavery.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.women.prisons/index.html
HRW presses Iraqi Kurds to ban female circumcision
This is something we grow up hearing about it happening in another countries not Iraq, Its heartbreaking to see Iraq move backword in that sense.
Source BBC:
Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan to ban the practice of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM).
A report issued by the group on Wednesday said the practice was widespread in Iraqi Kurdistan, and was having a harmful effect on the physical and emotional health of many women.
Women are 2nd class citizens in Iraq Lets change this
an Iraqi expatriate, can't apply for an Iraqi passport because she's
forty, without a husband, her father is thousands of miles away from
her, under the new order of MOI (Ministry of Interior),she has to be
under custodianship, to be granted a passport, she's not considered an
independent human being just because she is a women, in a system
filled with illiterates who got hired in the last few years because of
their political affiliation not because of their qualification. each
person send her to the other side.
put in place way before 2003 in a way to protect the "Honor" of Iraq
by not allowing women to travel unless they are under custodianship
(Father, Brother or Husband) , and the current system loved it so much
that they did not bother to truly apply what Human Rights they always
talk about to this grave violation This is from the MOI website http://www.iraqinationality.gov.iq/passport_ar.htm 3- يتوجب على المرأة العراقية غير المتزوجة إستحصال موافقة ولي أمرها على
منحها جواز السفر على أن يقدم ولي الأمر مستمسكاته الثبوتية وحضوره شخصيا
إلى دائرة الجوازات الفرعية لغرض اخذ البصمة الحية .
4- يتوجب على المرأة العراقية المتزوجة إستحصال موافقة زوجها على منحها
جواز السفر بعد أن يقدم زوجها مستمسكاته الثبوتية وحضوره شخصيا إلى دائرة
الجوازات الفرعية لغرض اخذ البصمة الحية .
5- يتوجب على المرأة العراقية دون سن الرشد إستحصال موافقة ولي أمرها على
منحها جواز سفر على أن يقدم ولي الأمر مستمسكاته الثبوتية وحضوره شخصيا
إلى دائرة الجوازات الفرعية لغرض اخذ البصمة الحية .
6- على المرأة العراقية الأرملة أو المطلقة إستحصال موافقة ولي أمرها على
منحها جواز سفر على أن يقدم ولي الأمر مستمسكاته الثبوتية وحضوره شخصيا
إلى دائرة الجوازات الفرعية لغرض اخذ البصمة الحية . Translation 3- Non-married Iraqi women must obtain the approval of her guardian
to give her passport, guardian must submit identity and presence in
person at a passport offices for the purpose of fingerprints.
4 - Married Iraqi women need the consent of her husband to give her
passport, her husband must submit identity and presence in person at a
passport offices for the purpose of fingerprints.
5 - Under age Iraqi women must obtain the approval of her guardian to
give her passport, guardian must submit identity and presence in
person at a passport offices for the purpose of fingerprints.
6 - A widow or divorced Iraqi women must obtain the approval of her
guardian to give her passport, guardian must submit identity and
presence in person at a passport offices for the purpose of
fingerprints. We need everyone support for such grave violation of basic human right
soon we will post links to how you can help
