http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2580&page=2
Iraq's Excluded Women
Founding Mothers?
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Many Iraqi women are defying cultural conservatives and danger outside
their doors to participate in Iraq's incipient government and civil society.
Here are some who are taking the risk:
Songul Chapouk represents the Turkoman population on the Iraqi
Governing Council. An engineer by training, Chapouk founded the Kirkuk-based
Iraqi Women's Organization, which trains women in computer skills, agriculture,
and literacy.
Hind Makiya is founding director of the Baghdad Women's Foundation
and the Iraqi Women's Foundation, a U.K.-based nongovernmental organization
that supports women's participation in a democratic Iraq. One of only five
women appointed to the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council, she has
also worked with various administrative bodies to plan a national strategy for
Iraq's post-conflict education system.
Dr. Raja Habib Khuzai was one of three women appointed to the Iraqi
Governing Council, which governed Iraq prior to June 30, 2004. Khuzai
previously directed a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniah while
teaching at the local medical college. Her current project is a national
women's health initiative for cancer prevention. Khuzai is also president of
the Women's Organization in Diwaniah and founder of the Women's Health Center
in Baghdad.
Siham Hattab Hamdan serves on several committees of the Baghdad
City Advisory Council, including the public affairs committee and the legal
affairs and human rights committee. A lecturer in English literature at
Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, she previously served as the council's vice
chairperson, representing the Sadr City district. She is currently working to
establish women's centers in Sadr City.
Nesreen Berwari was minister of public works in the provisional
Iraqi government and minister of reconstruction and development for the
Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq. She was also a member of the
economy and infrastructure working group at the U.S. State Department's Future
of Iraq project. Berwari previously worked with the International Organization
for Migration and the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs.
Ala Talabani, a former vice president of the Kurdistan Women's
Union, fled Iraq in 1991 for the United Kingdom after she was fired from
engineering and teaching positions for her Kurdish ethnicity and for not being
a member of the ruling Baath Party. In 2003, Talabani cofounded Women for a
Free Iraq and the Iraqi Women's High Council, which drafted policies on the
role of women in Iraq's post-conflict reconstruction.
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