Women’s Rights in Iraq:Dress CodeBY: JENNA DUBE

http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2013_09_19_archive.html

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.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-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.”

http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1347545.html

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

http://04varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/03e-women-in-the-world-iraq.jpg

Citations

Dina Al Shibeeb, 22 Nov. 2012. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.

"Silence Is the Dress Code for Women." - Taipei Times. Bushra Juhi, 5 June 2004. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.