Draft Constitution May Strip Iraqi Women of Basic Human Rights
From The Human Rights Project
Dateline: August 23, 2005
raq's parliament received a draft of the country's constitution less than five minutes before a midnight deadline on Monday, but delayed a vote for three days on the highly contested document to win support from Sunni leaders.
The delay came despite the requirement in the country's interim constitution that the document be completed by a deadline, which already had been extended a week.
At the heart of the dispute was the decision to largely exclude Sunni leaders from the talks on the constitution. When the Sunnis were finally brought into the negotiations on Monday afternoon, they promptly rejected several of the constitution's most fundamental provisions.
Posted on 08-23-2005
