Women’s Rights in Iraq: Dress Code BY: JENNA DUBE

How is this social injustice?  Affects women and the people around them  Doesn‘t allow women the freedom of dressing the way that makes them feel comfortable  Can make women feel like they have no freedom and that they can only do what men feel is right or acceptable. womens-rights-rape

Expectations  Only the eyes, nose, mouth, and hands can show-but never the wrists  One hair out of place can start shouting from passerbyers  “Day after day, I am seeing more indicators that there is discrimination against women who chose not to wear hijab in Iraq.”- Hanaa Edwar, General Secretary of a non-government organization  "The Hawza clerics in Iraq are refusing to allow women who are not dressed in extremely conservative clothing to enter mosques for worship.”

Silence is the Dress Code for Women  “Once a mullah walking toward me lifted his robe to avoid the mud, so I did the same, Wagging his finger, he yelled “It’s wrong to pull up your abaya!” -Taipei Times  “Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebel cleric, has just finished his Friday sermon and his militiamen are securing the area around his car. One notices a women, swathed in robe and head scarf. Everything but her face and hands are covered. Yet, she is told to go stand in a corner, because the guards have to be alert and her “presence confuses us.”” -Taipei Times 1/06/03e-women-in-the-world-iraq.jpg

Citations  Dina Al Shibeeb, 22 Nov Web. 30 Jan  "Silence Is the Dress Code for Women." - Taipei Times. Bushra Juhi, 5 June Web. 30 Jan