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WLI Educational
Lectures
Within the
activities implemented by WLI in its huge project under the
slogan “Participation Is A Challenge That You Are Up To”, WLI
presented many lectures in state Ministries aiming at educating
the employees with the importance of participation especially
encouraging women and motivating them to play their basic role
by giving their vote to the one who deserve it, also to identify
the importance of the coming stage of the elections with its
perfect democratic style which must be done through rules and
instructions that could be known through these lectures. WLI
tried to explain through these lectures the most important
issues regarding the provincial councils, their tasks
authorities and the electoral law. WLI has presented 15 lectures
in different ministries.
Radio
Broadcasting Program
WLI is implementing
a radio broadcasting programs in the following Iraqi provinces:
Babil, Karbala, Wasit, Najaf and Dewaniya, about governorate
councils’ elections and women political participation. The radio
program consist of several episodes, each episode is starting
with short definition of WLI and then talking about issues
related to the governorate councils’ elections, electoral law
and women’s role in political construction.
Cultural
competitions
Since cultural
competitions give better capacities to reach the knowledge about
the governorate councils and exchanging this knowledge in an
interesting style through asking and answering which motivate
the participants to look for the answer and presenting
information. WLI is aiming at raise the awareness and presenting
information with high efficiency and in calculated moments.
Through these competitions participants divided into two teams
to answer questions about provincial councils, candidate
features, electoral law, women role through voting and her role
to success the democratic building.
Implementing
workshops under the slogan
“Participation
is a challenge that you are up to”
WLI implemented
many workshops under the slogan “Participation is a challenge
that you are up to” in Baghdad, Basrah, Amara, AL-Mothana, Najaf,
Deiwania, Wasit, Thi Qar, Deyala, Karbala, Babil,and Mosil.
These entire workshop conducted in order educate people about
governorate councils elections.
The topics that
these workshops covered are the governorate councils’
specialties, structure, formation, roles, the decisions that
these councils come up with and there effect on the community
and the method of voting for decisions inside the councils.
At the workshops there has been illustration of the Iraqi
electoral law and implementing many practical exercises by
dividing participants into groups each group discuss a topic
based on the lecturer decision.
WLI Campaign
Trainings
WLI is conducting a
series of trainings for the candidates of the coming governorate
councils’ elections in Baghdad, Babil, Deyala, Karbala, Najaf,
Neinawa, Dewaniya, Wasit, Basra, Amara, Mothana and Nasiriya.
The training aims at let women gain skills helping her to
participating politically. In decision making process, and the
training address the definition of electoral message and its
features, electoral speech and how to prepare for electoral
campaign.
Art Exhibits
WLI is conducting
an art exhibit in Iraqi southern provinces (Basrah, Mothana, Thi
Qar and Maysan). These exhibits consist of paintings drawn by
female Iraqi artists, these exhibits targeted to encourage the
professional female cadres, as WLI consider these exhibits as a
support of Iraqi women’s art, and an opportunity to the artists
to be known by others and discover her splendid sense and her
ability to tender picturing reality by objective paintings.
After the exhibits, a dialogue session would be conducted, where
participants are discussing different maters about provincial
councils, woman’s issues, woman’s political role and women right
to vote.
Poetry festivals
WLI is conducting a
series of poetry festivals in Iraqi southern provinces. In these
festivals, the poems written by Iraqi female poets, in attempt
to supporting and developing women’s literary and poetic
capability, permeate dialogue sessions during these sessions a
various topics have been discussed like the means to enable
women to perform their roles in their society, women’s political
participation and provincial councils elections.
WLI Educational
Lectures
Within the activities
implemented by WLI in its huge project under the slogan
“Participation Is A Challenge That You Are Up To”, WLI presented
many lectures in state Ministries aiming at educating the
employees with the importance of participation especially
encouraging women and motivating them to play their basic role
by giving their vote to the one who deserve it, also to identify
the importance of the coming stage of the elections with its
perfect democratic style which must be done through rules and
instructions that could be known through these lectures. WLI
tried to explain through these lectures the most important
issues regarding the provincial councils, their tasks
authorities and the electoral law. WLI has presented 15 lectures
in different ministries.
30, July, 2008
WLI has started its activities in
Baghdad by implementing a ministry lecture regarding the
importance of women participation in the provincial election.
The lecture took place in the Ministry of Agriculture/Baghdad.
This lecture aims to increase women participation in the coming
election.
The lecture started by welcoming
participants and identifying WLI, its last activities and the
coming campaign. Many questions and discussions have been raised
through the lecture.
August,
12, 2008
The
most important issue the lecturer dealt with is mentioning to
the role of the local councils and the governorate councils; she
identified it as important body in the society and its
democratic building especially in Iraq that passes by a
transition phase from the dictatorial atmosphere to the
democratic one. The importance of this lecture lies in the
importance of its target group which is the female employees of
the ministry of antiques and tourism aiming at educating them
about the importance of the elections and voting for the new
candidates whom supposed to serve their country and make good
achievements. This lecture is representing part of WLI’s
campaign to educate for the elections
Recommendations:
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Supporting participation in
the elections.
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Getting more information about
the council tasks and duties and the electoral law.
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The necessity of giving more
lectures.
13,
August, 2008
many discussions was made with the
lecturer and they came up with the following recommendations:
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Voting is general right for
all citizens.
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The necessity of enabling the
voter from voting in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Honest elections.
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The importance of establishing
good relationship between the governmental institutions and
the citizens.
August,
19, 2008
In this
lecture, Question rise about the Quota?
This concept has been explained
for the participants, and to what extend women are demanding to
have the Quota by giving them number of seats in the parleman as
a reflection for the conclusions of the representative and the
Municipal election through which women participation was touched
and the choosing must be according to the efficiency of the
candidate not the sex.
August,
26, 08
At
the end of the lecture they came to the following
recommendations:
Trying to change the legislations
regarding woman in order to enable her to participate activity.
Establishing an economic council
to support woman.
Creating a democratic atmosphere
in the political parties in order to put an end to the
discrimination phenomena and marginalizing woman.
The importance of media to change
the woman image and give her all the support she needs it.
Training women and trying to
implement more programs aiming at raising the awareness and
capacity building.
September,
2, 08
The educational lecture was
submitted to Ministry female employee, the lecture aimed to
raise awareness for this important category of the society, and
to urge them to political participation and educate them to
increase participation in provincial council elections, due to
its importance in the citizens life, in the services provides
and in the development projects.
September, 8, 2008.
WLI have done an educational
lecture for the ministry of science and technology female
employee and have explained the importance of provincial
councils which considered as local governments have an
important and significant role in citizens’ life, citizen’s role
in electing suitable members in these councils, elections
participations and the participation should be real and active,
in order to get fair results
September/9/2008
Through
lecture there have been discussions about the governorate
councils and their authorities also about the election mechanism
in the democratic building and the electoral law in Iraq.
September.15.2008
Knowledge does not come from
emptiness but it generated from many scientific, cultural,
political and social factors that affect in total on building
the society. Ability to gain knowledge and implement it
efficiently is what WLI aims at through presenting its
educational lectures in order to help the audience to get the
information and get use of it to reach the phase of fifing and
to understand equations of life and to use them to build better
society and decide the citizens needs beside shedding lights on
the political roles and the objective active participation with
its influence upon the progress and development.
WLI represented a lecture in the
location of since and technology Ministry and targeted its
female employee to reach the goals mentioned above.
Recommendations:-
Á
Legal and political
dimensions have great influence on the society development,
that's why woman must participate in big challenge to take her
real role.
Á
Women are in need to
explore information about the provincial councils and their
roles in order to give their votes for the right candidates.
September, 15, 2008
Questions rose through the
lecture:
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What is
the open and closed list?
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Are
women allowed to have separated list?
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Is the
government able to insure the elections honesty?
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What are
the candidate features?
September, 16, 2008
Many discussions have been made
and questions raised, like:
·
How we
guarantee the elections honesty?
·
How we
observe the elections?
·
What are
the features of a good candidate?
September, 17, 2008
Some questions rose:-
·
What are
the features of a good candidate?
·
How can
women keep her position in the open list system?
·
What is
the difference between the simple majority and an absolute
majority?
September, 23, 2008
In this lecture,
WLI's staff talked about WLI's achievements in urging women to
participate in the coming elections and making them aware
about their rights in participation, and then some questions
were asked to stimulate attendance to participate in
discussions, some questions rose:-
·
How
can the suitable candidates be recognized?
·
What
is the difference between the simple majority and an absolute
majority?
·
What
could women have her rights in participation?
September, 24, 2008
Despite of all the
difficulties to reach Al-Sader city, WLI's staff has the
initiative to conduct an educational lecture for feminist
employee of General Educational administration of Al-Sader city
about the provincial council's election.
September, 25, 2008
WLI
has conducted an educational lecture about the provincial
councils and their roles. The lecturer talked about the features
of the good candidate. Participants activated with the lecture
and they touched its importance that lies in the council
member's responsibility to serve Iraq and establish the new
democratic system.
March
Activities
Training /municipal council members
March, 12, 13,14,2008
Baghdad AlSader
city
WLI has
conducted training in the municipal council of Sader
city in Baghdad, The first
day training was about "Women and policy"; the trainer started
her lecture by giving the meaning of participation in the
political process, this topic
has been chosen because modern ideologies based on generating
ideas and developing the mind ability in order to enable the
individuals to be more capable to solve the problems and then to
answer life requirements .
WLI find it important to adopt and
implement this idea and pass it to the audience in order to get
use of the experiences and studies made by expert as the dealt
with both scientific and psychologies.
At the end
of the training, all the participants presented their deep
thanks to WLI and hoped to continue such activities. WLI also
distributed certificates for the ladies participated in the
training.
Basra conference
March, 13, 2008
Under the
title " The belief of WLI
in the necessity of having the experience…and evaluated it from
far ….it held its 1st conference about the
participation of women in the political life… reality and
prospects" WLI has conducted its regional conference for the
governorate council members in Basra.
At the end of the conference the
participants came out with the following recommendations:
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Expansion
of the Quota principle and in the law of governorate
councils and municipal councils because of the weakness of
women's participation and their absence in many of them.
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Try
to find
another institution more effective than the State Ministry
for Women's Affairs to solve many issues concerning women
because of the inability of the Iraqi Ministry from their
duties.
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Attempt many
programs to support women's participation in the public
administration and political affairs.
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Preparation of
educational programs to build extensive Feminist leaders
capable and efficient.
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Try
to build a work cell in each governorate with a
representative of the parliament members in the governorate
and Women's Commission and another one from feminist civil
society to discuss the situation of women in each
governorate and found solutions for the problems experienced
by women.
Babil conference
March, 13, 2008
WLI has conducted a regional
conference in Babil governorate. WLI's
facilitator started the conference with reading WLI's speech and
welcoming and thanking the participates for their attendance
from other governorates, then he explained WLI'S project and the
aim of holding this conference after that he red the
recommendations of the workshops that had been held in middle
Euphrates(Dewania,Karbala,Najaf and Wasit), And he
talked about the difficulties that could face the women in the
governorate council and in the position of making decisions.
Then the director of Alyoser assembly
for care and rehabilitation of
women and UNIFEM representative in the Babil governorate talked
about encourage women to participate in the elections for the
governorates councils and planning for a media and education
campaign focusing on the need for significant participation of
women in elections as voters and encourage women, the parties
and organizations to stimulate the participation of women
capable of responsibility and not only to complete the quorum.
Then a Governorate council Member and the deputy of
the council director talked about the difficulties facing them
in their work in the governorate council and she talked also
about the active role for women in the council and who they
proved their efficiency in all committees of the council and
they had a great role in the completion of many projects, and
who the Committee chaired by women give a good and accurate
results and there are 13 Committee of the council, including 6
directed by women. And they had a meeting the committee of
women in the parliament demanding with legislations of law deals
with birth and motherhood and providing entertainment and
cultural project for women.
Then another
governorate council Member and the director
of the legal committee talked about political empowerment of
women, she mentioned that the political empowerment is one of
the mechanisms for raising the abilities of women to enable them
to meet the community and providing the opportunity which can be
achieved only by increasing women's abilities and raise their
capacity through scientific and practical trainings to create a
leadership Iraqi women.
Also one of
the participants talked about the law of the governorate
councils and Quota System, she
mentioned that the Iraqi constitution in 1970 had stated on
political participation, but it didn't provide anything of the
rights and who women had suffered from marginalization.
The
recommendations were:
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Holding
conferences and meetings between the governorate council
members and CSO to improve and activate women participation
in the political roles.
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Create women
have administrative and specialization expertise.
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Coordination
between civil society organizations and the council In order
to inform the mechanism of decision-making of the
governorate council.
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Inform women
with their rights and duties of the Constitutional process
as a member in the Council of the governorate and inspiring
her with the developments in the Iraqi society and
international levels.
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Direction of
the media to show the positive side of women working in
decision-making positions, especially members of the
governorate councils and municipal councils.
Seminar/Women
in the Islamic legislations…
Contemporary vision
March, 11,
2008
To clarify
the attitude of Islam from women, and to review the relationship
of Islamic and the ignorant society and knew the tradition
prevailing at the time, and the vision of Islamic legislation
for women, which was represented with justice and wisdom in the
cultural and social atmosphere ...But do these provisions mean a
stable and continuous legislation for ever?! Without any
change?!! , therefore WLI found that its important to discuss
that subject and debate on it to find out the status of women
in Islamic law and did the view on the rights and role of
different time and place change?.
We think
that obtaining an ideal society achieved by respecting women and
honoring and viewed with pride of their roles in the community,
there are many questions must be answered and great things to be
clarified during this work and this effort, which aspires to be
the positive results on the full understanding and perception,
but changing the habits of the community is not done unless we
use fixed arguments, including Quran verses which ensured on
the equality between men and women in the humanitarian and the
Islam ( as a religion) is like religions (perhaps most of them)
which urges the application of justice among the people and
rejects injustice, we see in these times that many of the
injustice and inequity reality for a lot of women come from
those vision that still wants to keep women in the age of
illiteracy, ignorance and forcible.
The
participants who attend the seminar were mainly from civil
society organizations and activists in the field of defending
women's rights and academics.
Baghdad TOT
training
4, 5, 6
March, 2007
The training
sessions aiming at achieving real advantage to prepare future
trainers, also to shed light on the new established
non-governmental organizations in Baghdad who have not
participated in trainings that qualified them to be good
trainers. These organizations didn’t get the opportunity to get
trained because most of the international organizations have
moved out of Baghdad during the last year the thing that makes
WLI take the initiative to provide these new established
organizations with useful knowledge through this training.
Dyala
conference
March, 5, 2008
WLI has conducted a conference in Dyala governorate.
The conference ended with the
following recommendations:
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Provide a security for the
governorate council members by security forces,
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Demand that the media should
highlight on women in all fields, including political,
cultural and even their home.
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Demand WLI and other
organizations who deal about women with more conferences and
courses within the governorate and outside to raise the
capacity of women.
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Ask the government to take
upon themselves the actual participation of women in all the
fields that can help them.
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Demand the political parties
to give more freedom and develop of women and to focus on
their role in society.
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Provide Media specialized
with women in the council.
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Providing advisory committees
with the participation of women.
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Make women assume executive
positions in the council.
February
Activities
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Nasriya workshop
Feb., 21, 2008
WLI has held
workshop in Nasryia. WLI'S
facilitator welcomed the participants and thanked the
governorate council members for their attending then he explain
the aim of the workshop in activating the role of women in the
governorate council and explained their experiences for the
activist women in civil society organizations in Nasriya.
Then a women (Governorate council member) presented a
working paper talking
about
the status of women in the
society and she talked about the role of women especially after
the democratic transformation and the situation of women in the
governorate council and the important and effective role through
working in most committees where they shared men in most
committees beside their role in women and childhood committee,
and how most of the women in the governorate council are
activist in the CSO in Nasriya. Then
another Governorate council member talked about
the achievements done by governorate council, but the problems
facing them led to results that are not as they expected. Also
another governorate council member talked about the most
important difficulties that facing they in their work and the
demands that they have been asked does not responded
,and she talked about the
communications problem between leadership women in the
parliament and the women in the governorate council and also
between the activist women in CSO and the women in the
governorate council ,and still there are problems represented in
lack of experiences and the lack of assistance and support by
the members families because of the social custom which restrict
their work.
Then it has
been agreed on some recommendations:
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Need to allocate
funds for women in the governorate councils of to use them
in special programs to
develop and service them.
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Increase
opportunities for participation and communication between
Board members and civil society organizations.
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It
is necessary that the governorate take seriously the Demands
made by women.
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Providing trainings
for the governorate council to enable them to be leaders in
the community.
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Creating a
mechanism to increase the communication between the women in
the governorate council and the leaders women in the
government.
At the end of the workshop the
attendance thanked WLI on this beautiful opportunity, which
gathered them with the governorate council members and wished
the progress and prosperity to WLI.
Baghdad
Seminar /International agreements and women's rights
Feb., 21,
2008
WLI
continued its fruitful efforts through holding seminar regarding
the international treaties through which it dealt with
international documents and what follows of documents according
to its time of publishing aiming at raising the awareness and in
order to contribute in identifying the international efforts,
WLI is aiming to achieve this advantage by holding this seminar
in Baghdad on the hall of integrity body.
The
lecturer started her lecture after welcoming participants at
9:30 with giving simple explanations for legal concepts and
terms like the agreement, treaty, pledge, convention etc... In
order to enable the audience to distinguish between these terms,
then she started talking about the universal announcement for
human rights – 1948 , then she moved to the second phase 1974
also she talked about convention of elimination Discrimination
against woman – 1981 , also she mentioned the most articles of
this agreement that concerned woman right and eliminating
discrimination against her. Through her lectures tried to make a kind of
comparison between the international documents and the Iraqi
legislation regarding women through studying these documents and
mentioning wither Iraq has signed them or has some reservations
beside the legal stand towards these reservations. Then she
moved to Baken conference – 1955 which is the fourth conference
for women that hold by the UN who called to double the efforts
and procedures aiming at achieving strategically objectives to
raise women reality.
Through the
seminar WLI's staffs were keen to distribute the booklet that
includes all the international agreements in order to use it as
an illustration method for the participants so they can get use
of this booklet titled (shedding
light on the international efforts to protect woman).
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Baghdad workshop
Feb., 20, 2008
Proceeding from the aim of WLI
and complement to the setting of
dialogue sessions held by WLI ,a workshop had been held at the
hall of the governorate council in Baghdad with the attending of
the council members and activists from CSO.
The workshops started with
welcoming the participants and view the project that has been
done to improve and activate the role of women in the
governorate council.
Then Mrs. Walaa Zalzala
(governorate council member and the director of the council
affairs and economic researcher in the council) started talking
about the role of the women in the governorate council, she
mentioned that there are 12women member they represent the 25%
ratio of the total number of the members, six women headed the
committees like (leagal, women and childhood, health and
environment, services and sewage, displaced).
Then Mrs. Fatima Alaarajy
(governorate council member and the director of the forcibly
displaced committee) talked about their role in following-up the
problems of the displaced and to find appropriate and solutions
to them through the provision of housing and housing complexes
and distribution of the Caravans to the displaced and poor
families.
Then Mrs. Aniam Salih
(governorate council member and the director of Services and
sewage Committee) talked about the mechanism of the work and the
achievement done by this committee also she mentioned that
the work of the council is
the regulatory and supervisory on the projects executed by the
state, and talked about the negatives and difficulties of their
work and trying to solve them, also she talked about the
committees which the women work in.
The recommendations that the
workshop ended with were:
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Increase the number of the
governorate council members and thus increase the number of
women members.
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Direction of the media to
show the real side and coordination between the media and
women in the governorate council.
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Establishment of training
specialized to prepare and qualify the participants for the
upcoming elections.
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Holding training and meetings
between the governorate members and the activist of CSO.
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Selection of politically and
culturally educating women to work within the councils.
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Demanding the Political
parties to rehabilitate members into training in order to
work in leadership positions in the Council.
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Demand with open lists in new
program of the elections.
Baghdad
workshop/Democratic youth role
Feb., 16, 2008
WLI has
conducted a workshop for young collegiate in Baghdad. The workshop started by welcoming the participants and thanking their
families for their complete trust in WLI to allow their
daughters to attend this activity despite the bad security
situation in Baghdad.
The Trainer
started her lecture by presenting a power point review about
WLI's youth training in Erbil and how this training had achieved
its purpose. Then the lecturer gave a preview about man in
general and the most modern explanation for man psychological
cases. Shy was one of the issues that have been discussed
through the workshop, its reasons and direct and indirect
impacts on young ladies
The lecturer also dealt with the topic of time management skills,
through which she asked the participants to write down the idea
that make one complicated, the next step is to identify the
fears in the life of each student, the reflection of feelings
and sensitive, the last step is to explore the mechanism that
each one could change the believe that cause him problems.
Baghdad
Seminar/challenges face the women in political parties
Feb., 14, 2008
Proceeding
from the aim of WLI, seminar has been conducted a under the
title" Challenges facing women in the political parties"
the seminar is complementary to the work program of WLI with
women political parties which held in advance for a group of
women belonging to different parties and from different
governorates to create staffs that will be able to take a real
role in society and capable of decision-making and action to
face the difficulties and challenges they face in their work.
The lecturer started her
lecture talking about the wise management for women in their
parties which is enhanced through equality and social
integration and unifies the visions and strategies between the
parties for the benefit of society.
The most
important difficulties that facing women in the political
parties are:
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The
participants focused on the marginalizing of their work in
the parties.
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The parties
leadership do not involve women in decision making and
taking important and effective roles.
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Women suffer
from the lack of opportunities offered to them from their
parties.
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Women in
parties suffer from the discrimination when there are
trainings outside Iraq, the parties often send men only.
Therefore
the participants demand on continuous trainings to develop and
empower them in their parties, also they asked WLI to support
the establishment of network of women political parties.
Municipal
council training in Karada
Feb., 11,
12,13,2008
WLI has held
training for the municipal
council members / Karada district in Baghdad. The first day
topic was about leadership skills. The
training was attended by municipal council members
and the council employers.
The lecturer
started her lecture by giving identification for the meaning of
political participation also she talked about the weakness
factor through social and economical differences and the
decrease of the political awareness degree. The lecturer dealt
with leadership qualifications that the candidate should carry
also she talked about the importance of women participation in
the process of making decision and the role that she should
play to serve her country and community . The lecturer said that
it is not important that women occupied a leading position and
she is not able to make a decision but the most important thing
is to play a real and active role.
The second
day topic was about Creative thinking skills, this topic has been chosen because modern
ideologies based on generating ideas and developing the
mind
ability in order to enable the individuals to
be more capable to
solve the problems and then to answer life
requirements. WLI
find it important to adopt and implement this idea and pass it
to the audience in order to get use of the experiences and
studies made by expert as the dealt with both scientific and
psychologies.
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Najaf workshop
Feb., 10, 2008
WLI has conducted a
workshop in Najaf governorate titled" women experience in
governorate councils….chances and challenges"
WLI'S facilitator started the
workshop by welcoming
The participants then he gave the
space to the governorate council members to give some details
about their work in the council.
"Women
experience in governorate council…. opportunities and
challenges"
Basra
Workshop Feb.,7,2008
WLI has held
workshop in Basra Aljazaier district.
Dr. Sundus
Abass WLI'S director started the opening of the workshop
thanking the governorate council members and the participants
for their attending then she talked in details about the reality
of women situation in Iraq.
Then the
lecturer (Governorate
council member) talked about the political and security situation in
the governorate and she talked about the structure of her work
and her responsibilities related with her experience in the
municipal council in Alzubair district and she is a member in
the committee of health and environment, she talked about the
work in this committee and she talked about the bad medical
situation in the governorate, and how to deal with these issues.
Then
another Governorate council member talked about the
difficulties that face the women work in the governorate
councils and she talked about marginalization of woman role in
mentioned that they solved the family difficulties and
constraints which enable them to work in the council.
The
recommendations were:
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Need for
equal opportunities within the councils.
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Continuous communication between the Governorate council
members and women in CSO, political parties, academics,… etc. to
work together to activate women role.
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Educating and activating the role of women in the governorate
council through holding trainings, lectures and workshops for
empowering women in order to enable her to take leadership
positions.
-
Give
women greater opportunities in the councils to maintain through
their participation in all the committees and thus reduce their
marginalization and help them to activate the women role in the
community.
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Dewania
workshop
February, 3, 2008
WLI has held
workshop at human rights center hall in Dewania on Sunday,
February, 3, 2008.
WLI'S
facilitator welcomed the participants and thanked the
governorate council members for their attending then he explain
the aim of the workshop in activating the role of women in the
governorate council and explained their experiences for the
activist women in civil society organizations in the
governorate.
The lecturer (Activist in Iraqi women league) talked
about many things related to the role of women in the
governorate council and how women were able to prove their
efficiency in their positions through facing the difficulties,
then she talked about achievements done by the Iraqi women
recently like Cancellation article 137 of the state
administration law also she talked about the representation of
women in the positions of making decisions(parliament,
governorate council) and the role of organizations in activating
women role thanking WLI for providing the opportunities to
discuss such important issues.
There was an open dialogue session and discussed the
following:
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women work
in the council is limited for number of committees for
example the committee of the security, agriculture,
construction and relations. No women representation, as well
as Committees constituted to resolve the immediate crisis.
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She also
clarified that there is a committee for women but without
real authorities and it didn’t serve women and it is
marginalized and formality committee.
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There are a
limited number of governorate council members that attend
organizations activities and among 11 women in the Council
only 4 to 5 women attending these activities and this were
due to inefficiency and the inability to face the public.
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Activist
women in CSO expect more effectively and efficiently roles
from the governorate council members in order to serve the
case of women and society and not to waste the gains that
women struggled for long periods.
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In order to
achieve communication between women in decision-making
positions and other women, there are several mechanisms
which allocate day monthly to meet the women and hear
directly their problems, as well as activating the role of
women's organizations and women in the parties and become
the link between them.
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Semawa
workshop
February, 2, 2008
WLI has held
workshop at the teacher's association hall in Semawa on Saturday
February, 2, 2008.
Governorate
council member mentioned that there are 3 women committees
in the council (legal, educational and women) and she talked
about the educational committee as she considered to be it’s
director and she talked about both negative and positive
sides in the work of this committee.
Participants
talked also about the
difficulties facing them in women committee. And the negatives which it
came as a result of the election through the lists which led
to the arrival of ineffective women to the governorate
council.
And also the mechanism that should be
depending on in order to communicate between women in
general and women in governorate council.
January
Activities
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Amara
workshop
January, 31,
2008
WLI has held
workshop at the women gathering hall in Amara on Thursday
January, 31, 2008.
The workshops started
with welcoming the participants then explain
its aim in activating the role of women in the governorate
council
The
recommendations were:
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Conforming
upon the election open lists.
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Woman should take
her role through competition like man which means that she
could have women list.
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Conforming
upon education the voters.
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Providing
candidate women with enough space through media to express
themselves to activate their roles in the democratic
process.
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Women who are
nominated for the new elections should carry the Iraqi women
message to achieve their rights.
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Wasit
workshop
January, 30,
2008
WLI has held workshop at
the media hall in Kut on Wednesday January, 30, 2008.
Then a governorate council member presented a working paper
talking about
the status of women before
2003 and how they were weak and banned from political activity
specially from the parliament and the governorate council ,then
she talked about the status of women after 2003 and the
democratic changing for the women who received political
positions and it was distinctive and difficult because they
didn't have the experience in undertaking such positions ,On
the other hand, the political men thought that women presence in
these locations is only to fill the election lists, which
required the representation of women at specified rates, but the
women were able to achieve an important achievement in some
leadership positions but still there are problems facing the
women advancement represented with lack of experiences , as well
as the problems of the communications and traveling which
restricts the movement of women very much.
The
recommendations were:
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Need for
communication between leaderships women in the State and
leaderships women in the civil society to serve women.
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It
is necessary that the governorate take into consideration
the demands made by women.
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It is necessary to
held trainings programs to enable women to be leaders in the
society.
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Need
for equal opportunities within the councils.
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Need for a more
specific mechanism for the communication between leaderships
women and women in civil society.
"Women experience
in governorate council…. opportunities and challenges"
Karbala
Workshop
January, 27,
2008
WLI has held
workshop at the women culture center hall in Karbala on Sunday
January, 27, 2008.
The workshop
was attended by women who tried to find a new mechanism of
the work between the governorate council members and civil
society organization.
The
discussions was about the Marginalization of women role made
by the Council and the marginalization of women and who our
society is a male society and the difficulty of the work,
especially in villages and rural areas, but now women have
became able to have distinguished position among men.
Discussions
were focusing on how to serve citizens. All
the participants thanked WLI for holding such activities also
they agreed upon holding monthly meeting to discuss obstacles
facing the two sides ,also they suggested to held regional
conference in Karbala governorate.
Developing
social consultations skills in the personal status courts to
solve the domestic conflict
January, 8, 2008
Style of
cooperative work: WLI aims at supporting new organizations and
open to Kurdish organization. And also this work has represented
a good opportunity to work with women in the field of personal
status court.
This
workshop aims at developing social consultations skills in the
personal status courts to solve the domestic conflicts.
The training
materials and through all the sessions dealt with most of the
topics that considered part of the participants work , also the
materials were useful and suitable for the participants culture
and local communities . The methodology of the training and
training aids and examples were Good and successful through
dealing with participants and the scientific material,
Participants:
Although
most of the participants didn't get the opportunity to
participate in such workshop and it is their first participation
or years, they showed their positive reacting and work serious
from the first day of the training.
Radio broadcast
programs
Radio
broadcast was held under the care of WLI titled (woman and
peace), it was aired at AlFuratain radio in Baghdad and this
program is a part of WLI's activities that concerned with women
statues and rights and the issue of the resolution 1325.
The program
hosted Dr. Alaa Abdalhassan (Professor in human rights /college
of law Baghdad University), Dr. Maha Alsakban (Professor in law/
Baghdad University), Mrs.Aliah Hussen (Governorate council
member in Baghdad), Mrs. Zainab Alnamany (Director of Alyusr
association for the care and
rehabilitation of women).
the
resolutio1325 and what are the most important subjects that it
dealt with, he spoke in detail
about the Security Council resolution of the United Nations
(1325) about women and peace that was issued by the Council on
October, 31, 2000 and it deals with girls and women, what are
the states that activate this resolution, and the national
planes followed by those states.
This
resolution is a document
consisting of 18 points based on four interrelated topics:
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Women
participation in all levels of decision-making and peace
process.
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Including
the gender training in the peace keeping process.
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Protection of girls and women
rights.
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Generalization of gender perspective in the implementation
and reporting systems of the United Nations.
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