Amendment "Civil Status" threatens to revive law Jaafari

Amendment "Civil Status" threatens to revive law Jaafari

Baghdad / Ali Author

Ended the House of Representatives, on Thursday, dismissed the legislative decision sparked controversy after that, the issue of ominous eruption opinion of a new year.
The Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to postpone the reading of the First Amendment to the Law (Civil Status) No. 188 of 1959, and asked the legal committees and endowments to hold a joint meeting of the maturation of the draft amendment.
But deputies accused of trying to revive the parliamentary parties to conditions Jaafari law through the Civil Status Law.
The parliamentary bloc of virtue was put through the Minister of Justice Hassan Shammari, who belongs to her, conditions Jaafari law in March 2014.
The cabinet voted, in February 2014, the draft law and referred it to the House of Representatives, but faced objections and wide led to withdraw it from circulation due it contains provisions inconsistent with the civil laws.
Says Rep Ryazan Sheikh Dler, a member of the Committee on Women and Family Parliamentary, " It is not logic that Iraq is prescribed a civil law of personal status in 1959, and then the day comes new legislation and the implications of undermining civil and cultural spirit of the country."
She Dler, in a statement (term), " The amendments to the Personal Status in which the law of prejudice against women and minors who Sakonnen victims of this legislation," expressing surprise of " the desire of some Shiite political forces to reduce the age of marriage for girls and focus on that matter." And confirmed its commitment to "coordinate positions to disable Article 41 of the law because they constitute a dispersed and dispersing agent between the sects."
The Article 41 of the Constitution states that "Iraqis are free to abide by their personal status according to their religions, sects, beliefs , or choices, and this shall be regulated by law."
And invited Sheikh Dler, in a statement issued on Sunday, the Committee of Religious Endowments and Religious Affairs Parliamentary "not to contribute to the support of this law and prove their ability to keep up with the spirit of the times, and activating the role of civil society and specialized organizations in this regard through awareness campaigns to explain this law to the general public."
And it demanded that the Kurdish MP " to clarify how such laws could topple the dignity of women and Tdnasseha and go with all our work on it after 2003, to raise the status of women in the Arab and international forums with the wind."
In a related context, other deputies believe that the amendment of the personal status law that would revive the content of any case law Jaafari, but devious ways.
Confirms MP Joseph Salioh, in an interview (range) yesterday, "We have contacts with some parliamentary committees and civil authorities for the purpose of preventing passing these amendments , which if passed will contribute to weakening the national sense of the community and solve sects suit the language."
In turn , objected MP Amin Bakr, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee in a statement (range), some amendments to the Personal Status Law, being dealt with a lot of legal problems that belong to the family " in a way threatens to social disintegration and to facilitate the issue of separation and divorce."
The Interior Minister Qassem al - Araji revealed submitting a request to amend the Civil Status Law, referring to submit a package of proposals include the granting of citizenship for Roma and Alqrj, in addition to facilitating the Iraqi wife obtain Iraqi nationality by reducing the length of stay provided for by the applicable law.
The first released Personal Status Law No. 188 in 1959, was based on the provisions of Islamic law, Mstmzja jurisprudence of Islamic doctrines without bias, but the law was left unchanged but undergone many changes, it was the first of the year 1963.
The successive amendments in the seventies and eighties, were added under new principles, most of them do justice to women, except those of a political nature, has issued a decision 137 of the interim government that took over the part of the administration of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 , the Council, to abolish the personal status Law and restores the work to eliminate sectarian, but the the decision was canceled after its release shortly in Ala M 2004.


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