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01/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Democracy?"

Riverbend from Baghdad Burning pointed out how
upset many women in Iraq are at the Governing Councils
decision to abandon family law for islamic Sharia law.

Women in Iraq Decry Decision To Curb Rights

Whose democracy?
Women, academics, the media worry about their rights in a new Iraq.

Afraid 'I do' may become 'You can't'
A decision by Iraq's American-backed Governing Council
to hand control of marriage and divorce laws to religious
authorities has sparked outrage among Iraqi women afraid
their rights will be stripped by clerics.

Kurdish Iraqi women demonstrate against threat to their rights
Thousands of Kurdish women marched in northern Iraq on
Wednesday against an interim Governing Council decision
to repeal long-standing secular family laws, once the
most advanced in the Arab world.

Shiite women knock at mosque door