5/20/2023 0 Comments How to put endnotes in word![]() The US-led invasion and occupation administration put political groups in power that attempted to undo one of the most important legacies for Iraqi women: the Personal Status Code. Women activists are fighting back in the limited social and political space they have left. Women have also endured the repression of a regime supported by various armed groups, one that rules through armed violence. The politicization of both gender and sect has had disproportionate consequences for women-jeopardizing their legal rights and control over their mobility and bodily freedom. The nature of their demands speaks to the daily challenges they face amid economic crises, the collapse of state institutions and services, waves of violence and militarization and the rise of heteropatriarchal conservatism. A new generation of young women protesters has emerged. As wider protest movements have developed in Iraq, particularly in the past decade, these women-led groups have also broadened their scope to include social and political issues. Groups like the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, Iraqi Women Network as well as informal women’s networks have emerged in the past 20 years. Women’s participation and visibility in Tishreen highlights the dynamism of women-led grassroots movements today. ![]() Thawra Tishreen (the October Revolution) saw ordinary people demonstrating against the political class and the system that had been put in place following the US-led invasion in 2003. The unprecedented scale of women’s participation helped turn what could have been just another wave of popular protests, which had grown more common over the past decade, into an uprising. ![]() Thousands of Iraqi women shouted these words in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square in October 2019. Iraqi women take to the streets in a Tishreen demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on February 13, 2020.
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