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Women protest against polygamy in
Kurdistan
28.10.2008
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October 28, 2008
Erbil-Hewler,
Kurdistan region "Iraq", — Nearly 200
women from 40 women’s organizations staged a
demonstration in front of the Kurdistan Regional
Government’s (KRG) building in Erbil calling to
amend a Personal Status Law article allowing
polygamy.
“We demand equality between men and women in the
Personal Status Law,www.ekurd.net
on which the
parliamentary legal committee is currently working,”
one of the organizers of the demonstration, Sayran
Abdullah, told VOI.
“We are particularly against men’s polygamy. Law no.
62 of the year 2001 banned polygamy with the
exception of certain cases,” Sayran, who is also a
member of Kurdistan’s Women Union, added.
Kurdistan Region Parliament held a session Monday to
discuss the Personal Status Code. At the beginning
of the session, Speaker of the Kurdistan Region
Parliament, Adnan Mufti, presented the law for
voting, and by the majority of the voters they
decided to discuss the draft law.
The committees of Human rights, endowment,
parliament legal committee,www.ekurd.net
and women supporting
committee read their reports, and the lawmakers
expressed their views about the article related to
polygamy.
During the session the parliament by the majority
vote decided that the Conditional polygamy to remain
in the draft law. It is expected that on Tuesday,
Kurdistan Region Parliament to continue discussing
other articles of the draft law.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, VOI
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