Dear Friends

I wish a happy International Women’s Day to all. Our celebration in Baghdad was a most positive one and also determined to change the dark post-war scenario into a bright egalitarian one.

Although burdened by veil, insecurity and deprivation, almost a thousand demonstrator (mostly women) gathered in Al Fardawse square to demand secularism.

While the Governing Council convened to sign a constitution that jeopardizes the lives of millions of Iraqi women, OWFI activists and members anounced to the whole world that they will not recognize a constitution that is mainly based on religion.

March 8 is our IWD and we will not agree to change it into a newly-invented Islamic day that isolates Iraqi women from the International women’s movement.

 

In Solidarity  

Yanar Mohammed