Iraq: How a Collective of Iraqi Women Is Bringing the Country Closer to Peace

Nov 1, 2019 | WLPF International
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A delegation representing the Iraqi Women’s Network attended the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) session on the 20th and 21st October 2019 and briefed the UN Committee on the CEDAW shadow report submitted end of September the same year. 

The Network worked extensively with more than 100 local organisations to draft and submit the 2019 shadow CEDAW report, and WILPF worked with the Network during the final stages of the 2019 CEDAW shadow report. In it, they raised issues on women’s rights violations in Iraq and asked the committee to put pressure on the Iraqi government to commit to its obligations towards women’s rights.