Women's Rights In Iraq

Women’s rights around the world can be seen has progression, but Iraq it is seen in reverse. Women had been given rights during the 20th century. Women’s rights have been a progress throughout the world. This is seen as an issue to many nations around the world. Comparing the rights of women in Iraq to other nations allows for the governments and United Nations to help bring solutions to women. In the United States, the government has given money to NGO’s to allow for them to educate the women in Iraq on how to achieve rights within the government. Lucy Brown and David Romano had told about how women had in Iraq had many rights. For example, these women had equal rights like being able to vote, attend school, own property, and run for political …show more content…
They explained the progression of how women got rights in the United States, and the effect on men. The idea that power would be shared with women started before women got the right to vote. Men started to care about women’s right due to them thinking of their own daughters. Women’s rights started off in the youth to increase their educational process for women. In the beginning of this battle for rights, women would have no rights, and belonged to their husband. The wife must obey the men’s ideas and beliefs. Human rights are explained in quantity and quality. Quantity is the numbers of women receiving the rights, and quality refers to how it is compared to men’s rights. A general example is education. The education of men was better than that of women when offered the same opportunities. Women’s schooling was generally simple compared to men’s education. Women would learn ways to please men, cook, and care for a family. Men had been able to learn the sciences, and languages. Overtime, many women had been able to break barriers and emerge into the men’s society. Women had been able to achieve t the same things as men making them equal. Women were usually in charge of children and their education which led to more women becoming educated to help their child prosper. Education has led to more human rights for women. They had been able to achieve rights by pursuing …show more content…
They explain women’s activism and the struggles in which they face. The organizations had been mentioned by Brown, Romano, and Efrati. Al-Ali has explained that after the fall of Ba’th regime is when women’s rights organizations came about. The first Iraqi women’s movement was called the Nahda al-Nisa also known has the Women’s Awakening. They had advocated for women’s education. Well advocating, the activists would participate in charity work. The United States announced in 2004 that they would give ten million to “Women’s Democracy Initiative” which would give grants to NGO’s to carry out education. The education is based on democracy education, leadership training, political training, and organizational management. These funds for education are in hopes that women would be able to come together and achieve rights. (Al-ali and