Fears of pressures practiced by clerics against the Domestic Violence Act

Fears of pressures practiced by clerics against the Domestic Violence Act


 Baghdad / term

A number of defenders launched a women 's rights in Iraq, on Sunday, an advocate campaign for the adoption of the law against violence against women, as demanded parliament and the government to take advantage of the laws and activating the punitive provisions against individuals and groups who engage in violence in all its forms, Hdhirn of the pressure exercised by the clergy to reject the law.
This came on the sidelines of the participation of a number of women active in defending the rights of women in Iraq in a workshop hosted by "Baghdad Women" Association.
Says lawyer Rasha Khaled, director of the campaign , according to a statement issued by the organization "Women of Baghdad" and received the "long" version of it, "Baghdad Women 's Association organized within the limit of discrimination and violence against women , with the support of the Norwegian People 's Aid Organization training workshop on advocacy mechanisms to pass a bill draft against domestic violence, which began since 1915 , where he trained a number of ministries and the alliance of 1325 on the changes in the bill, and the formation of a committee of those who have been trained working on this law and media training to change the stereotype about women to participate in this campaign through a plan of action both its location. "
Khaled offered a draft law stressing " the need to pass a law to protect the Iraqi family and activate the role of shelters to protect women survivors of violence, and exited the workshop building campaign team with a campaign plan , including individual initiatives for each element in the team."
Khalid said , "We will field visit to Arbil , the Kurdistan with a number of participants in the workshop and working on this law for the purpose of access and benefit from their experience in the establishment of shelters for domestic violence to find out the challenges and obstacles that hinder the campaign and ways to respond to them."
In turn , morning , Sami Dawood says, Head of Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law / University of Baghdad, said he "discussed the project of shelters since the 2012 law, but he did not read and did not reach the House of Representatives, so as not to accept the idea of community - class basis, and did not think that ranter may be a man or a woman or a child, regardless of who is exposed to violence in the family, they think that the role of the shelters are for women only, and reject this idea basically. "
She added Sami "As for the decision - makers, they are without to read the law or knowledge of its content or the concept of family and mum consists, understanding rejectionists of the foundation, enter and discuss this topic, and clerics also have the same sense, it means the rejection of the law simply name without his knowledge or see it" . She continued , "If there is no point of pressing the largest of these governing bodies, The project will remain a project without passed into law," stressing " the importance of the role of the shelter so as to ensure a safe place for taunted within the family , whatever, especially if families currently disassembled for the loss of many of its members to incidents of terrorism , especially widows and their number exceeded one million with Oitamhn, application and flaw lack of understanding of decision makers, what addresses this law if initiated and addressed problems. "
She noted that "in the case of non - acceptance of this law can be modified No. Penal Law 111 of 1969 and add him" in aggravating circumstances "if part of the assets or branches or nearly, is considered an aggravating circumstance and added measures of precautionary case, by taking the protection of an order the person who represents a danger to the other party, and this is one of the solutions in the case of the survival of this law , an obstacle to the protection of the family. " She explained law professor at the University of Baghdad, that " the Domestic Violence Act read the first reading in 2013 until now, it is not read a second reading, but the amendments have not been discussed at all , break - ups laws not in our interest, anti - smoking law, the Anti - Terrorism Act, the judge in the nineties of the last century, in front of him and the Code of Penal Code penal only, now abounded laws and without the application, they are not a lot of laws, but the application, then poor application from one of its causes, the lack of understanding of the law and lack of understanding of the nature of society and the lack of understanding of the law itself. " In turn , he said the Iraqi Women 's Association civil activist represented a victory Mayali "Our work on the draft law on protection against domestic violence four years ago, from the initial draft of the project, the bill itself, not only a means to protect women, as far as is the promotion of family and community cohesion, showed the importance of the enactment of this law , many family disputes and problems, and the consequent psychological and physical harm to the woman. " She Mayali the first draft of the project appeared quite frustrating, Vajtmana We are a group organizations, and we formed teams in open sessions with parliamentary committees to discuss the draft and was followed by a number of seminars , awareness - raising to highlight the law and its importance through recourse to law experts to identify shortcomings in it and how to avoid them and to find suitable alternatives for the development of the law and strengthened, and reached the law to parliament , and has read and despite treatments and observations made in the law appeared worse. " this comes in conjunction with the seminar against violence organization in July banned the management of a number of representatives of the Office of Human rights in Dhi Qar, and OHCHR elections, the Forum Women of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, educational and supervision, and civil society organizations, activists and media professionals from Dhi Qar province, at a seminar organized by the Organization supervised the "July" against violence in all its forms.


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