Women under International and Iraqi Legislation (Civil Rights as a Model)- Field Research

Abstract

Women's legislation is one of the basic components from which Iraqi woman derive her rights. The problem of this research revolved around the great suffering that woman has suffered as a result of their not obtaining full rights, the lack of fairness, justice and equality, lack of equality with a man, and her lack of the opportunity to obtain her rights stipulated by the laws, and the failure to advance them to the required level.

Therefore, the importance of this research is to activate and enhance the role of woman in light of legislation related to woman internationally and in Iraq, and to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that limit woman’s contribution to legislations.

The objectives of the research are embodied in knowing the extent to which international and Iraqi legislation contributes to enhancing the role of woman and educating them about her right, knowing the decisions, agreements and laws that Iraq has signed that aim to enable woman to obtain her right, and knowing the social and cultural motives and challenges that impede them on the way to obtaining her right.

Thus, the research included a field aspect and the research community was represented by members of the House of Representatives, as well as faculty members with specializations in social service and law in Iraqi universities and in five governorates in Iraq.

A multi-stratified random sample was taken from the studied community by distributing a questionnaire that included a number of questions and topics related to the research topic, and statistical analysis was done using the SPSS V.20 program. The research reached a number of recommendations, including that woman should be aware of their rights stipulated in Iraqi legislation and work to create a clear vision for Iraqi legislation.