Parliamentary Committee of Women rights calls to respect women rights

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Parliamentary Women, Family and Childhood Committee called “To respect women rights to sustain democracy by representing woman as a basic side.”

A statement by the Committee received by IraqiNews.com “Depriving women from their representation within the Independent High Electoral Commission was preceded by depriving them from their representation in the governmental formation as well as the during forming the Human Rights Commission.”

“The political blocs marginalized women as all the political parties worked on granting degraded position for women,” the statement added.

“The Commission calls the Non-Governmental Organizations and the women MPs to support fair representation for women in the IHEC as well as other Committees as the constitution conforms in its Articles 49, 20, 14,” the statement concluded.