Engineer: Ezdihar Mahmoud al-Shather
Director of the CNU Woman Bureau
Years of constant wars and rampant violence in society left many Iraqi women between illiterate widows and divorced and girls lost of hope and education, as the aggravation of sufferance and different crises, ignorance and sectarianism have painted the Iraqi society and woman in particular in a state of poor self-confidence and lack or scarcity of individual initiative impelled the Iraqi family, being the weakest link in society, to pay a high price as a result of negligence and looting her rights and denying her freedom enjoyed by her counterparts in other countries.

However, the emergence of social, economic and cultural problems have cast their shadow on marital relationship that gave rise to more cases of divorce in which many of them the husband refrains from giving alimony to his divorced in the right way or escapes altogether from giving alimony thus woman becomes the sole provider of her children after separation whereof she becomes under her ex-husband mercy in the fulfillment of his obligations by giving alimony and thus depriving children from a descent living, and this in turn would lead to the emergence of beggary phenomenon, homelessness, and labor children spread out though they have different causes for their homelessness but they still share one concern which is their loss of rights as children and what their peers entertain in the rest of countries, however, this actuality is a violation of the rights of child and woman and of all international norms and values.

UN reports indicate that Iraqi woman rights are threatened significantly at home, school, workplace and political circles while dozens are being widowed each day noting that out of every ten families there is one maintained by a woman.

Moreover, subsidies given away by some official bodies, including the International Relief Organization, here and there to remedy the problem are but temporary solutions and soon problems reappear, however, the optimal solution is by implanting self-confidence with woman by way of developing her skills and capabilities and setting access for her to contribute to society and apprising her that the most important factor is will, determination, and desire for change accompanied with experiences that would transfer woman to another level of performance, preparing to hold rehabilitation and training courses for woman and girl across the country while emphasizing variety in profession to fit with the needy and direct advantage  of personal interest, and in order to provide protection and support for divorcee woman for what she and her children are exposed to, by introducing a provision for (Alimony–securing Fund) which would ensure the provision of woman's alimony from it and the state has to collect the said alimony from husband, such an action will help to:

Alleviate the burden and reduce costs and expenses shouldered by woman in the process of collecting alimony and ensure that husband is not averting the payment of alimony.

As for widows, it has been revealed that they have basic needs to be satisfied such as economic needs that require, among other things, the inclusion of widows in the pension of their husbands regardless of their respective death circumstances so they are not liable to poverty, hunger, homelessness, and social needs filled, therefore, it is necessary to speed up enacting laws that would ensure their rights, for example to give labor widow that remarry a substantial financial reward, as well as to direct religious and media institutions to circulate the culture of respect for widows in order to satiate cultural and cognitive needs.

Nevertheless, we see that the law endows legal protection for the individual to enjoy his rights, but many obstacles that stand in the way of enjoying his rights and treatment do not lie only in creating laws but in addressing those obstacles and granting woman the rights she is denied, especially after the years of occupation.

In the same context, Dr. Nahro Mohammad AbdulKarim, President of CNU, emphasized that Iraqi woman lacked all forms of educational, social, and psychological and health care, under a government riddled with employment, administrative and financial corruption symptoms.

 Then the political agenda of the CNU pays great attention to this topic and gives it top priority if seen as necessary urgent initiative to take the appropriate remedial reforms against it in preparation for the development and renovation phase.

 He also asked for imposing appropriate legal amendments that would make room to protect woman in diverse daily living, academic and practical areas commensurate with the nature of Iraqi society, and demanded to double those punishments that tackle interference with woman such as trafficking in her, enslave, abduct or exterminate her and to consider these deeds as major crimes affecting the fate of the country and people.