Press Conference
Providing Work for Women is an
Urgent Need
“Women’s Rights At
Work” Center organized a press conference under the slogan “Providing Work for
Women is an Urgent Need” in the Fwcui Meeting Hall on
Saturday 2-9-2006.
Women seeking jobs attended the meeting, in
addition to worker activists and unionionists.
Eman Khattab, Wraw
activist, pointed out the necessity of having the women raise their voices high
to demand their right to work. She addressed the women to the important of
organizing their ranks in one pressure group to get their demands from the
authorities.
The activist, Azhar Baigk Al Gali, elaborated into
the sufferings of all Iraqi families when there is only one income, in times
when even two incomes are not enough. She criticized the authorities which
spend the unlimited resources of oil in all ways other than benefiting the
Iraqi citizen, not caring for the destiny of Iraqi women who go through all
kinds of sufferings to feed their children.
The unionist Amira
AL-Ikaby focused more upon the options of women as
for the existing social programs and the extremely low income unemployed widows
get from the government, blaming the government for the millions of jobless women.
Yanar Mohammed, the president of Organization
of Women’s Freedom in
Some discussion was held about the role of men
in marginalizing women and not encouraging them to work. The difference of
opinions clarified the variety of activists’ tendencies.
Finally, Eman Khattab assured that the
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