Today, Saturday, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made the announcement that the Supreme Council for Women’s Affairs will discuss all of the comments made regarding the Personal Status Law amendment.
Al-Sudani delivered a speech on the occasion, praising the efforts to hold this important conference, which aims to enhance the presence of women, support their effective role, and participate in building society. He cited the positions of great women in history, such as Lady Khadija the Great, Lady of the Women of the World Fatima Al-Zahra, Lady Zainab, peace be upon her, and Lady Mary the Virgin, who shaped the path of the greatest changes in history
According to the statement, Al-Sudani emphasized that our society, in all its forms, does not approve of or support any form of violence against women. This indicates that the government supported the 16-day campaign to combat violence against women and quickly realized that capable and empowered women are the key to achieving long-term economic and social reform and ambitious development plans.
He highlighted the public authority’s endeavors to help ladies, which finished in the send off of the Public Methodology for Iraqi Ladies (2023-2030), which incorporates objectives and dreams that empower ladies to progress and succeed. It additionally created drives that guarantee the security of ladies, like the Riyada Drive, and different projects sent off by the Incomparable Board for Youth focusing on young ladies and men, and the drive to send 5,000 female and male understudies to finish their postgraduate examinations.
He said that our government has a lot of female leaders in its administrative institutions. For example, there are three female ministers, two women who hold the position of undersecretary, 111 women who hold the position of general manager, and 47 women who are assistant general managers. This shows that we wanted to set up the Supreme Council for Women’s Affairs to be the direct planning and executive gateway for all decisions about women’s development.
He went on to say, “Soon, the Council will discuss in a specialized workshop all the observations raised regarding the Personal Status Law, noting that the Council launched the initiative (the National Team for Iraqi Women) to develop the skills of young women in various fields, and approximately 5,000 young women will be selected from all governorates, and the (National Women’s Training Program) has been approved to train women working in the private sector.” He went on to say that the Council would discuss all of the observations that were raised regarding the
He revealed that our government employed (24,922) the first female graduates and those with higher degrees in various specializations, and that women made up 55% of the total number of those appointed from the medical group under the law of progression for those in the medical and health professions.
Al-Sudani added, “Our administration keeps on lessening joblessness rates among ladies, which are near 28%, which was the rate it addressed a long time back. We face difficulties in decreasing the ignorance rate among ladies and are attempting to battle it, as it arrived at 17% quite a while back, by creating plans and projects.”
In a different setting, he denounced the slaughter committed by the Zionist occupation powers at day break today in a school lodging uprooted people in the Al-Daraj area in the Gaza Strip, which brought about the suffering of in excess of 100 individuals who were playing out the sunrise petition.