The Secretary General of the Government, Mahdi Alaq, said to the Country Director of the United Nations for Women Office that Iraq will implement the resolutions and international conventions related to Iraqi women. Meanwhile, MP Entisar Jubouri announced the completion of the drafting of the Arab Convention to eliminate violence against women, which was announced at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo early December 2016.
The Office of the Secretary General said: "The Secretary-General of the Government Mahdi Alaq stressed during his meeting with the Country Director of the United Nations for Women Office on the implementation of resolutions and international conventions related to Iraqi women,” adding that “we strive hard to pass the law against violence against women in Iraq."
MP Jubouri announced the completion of the drafting of the Arab Convention for the elimination of violence against women, which was announced at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo early December 2016.
She said in her speech on the occasion of the opening of the panel discussion organized by the Parliamentary Committee of Women in collaboration with a coalition of Arab states to combat violence against women, that "Article 398 is one of the most serious violations of women's rights, dignity and humanity, which is dedicated to grotesque to the norms and traditions of the tattered lives of women. These norms have nothing to do with Islam or the value of the tolerant. The session witnessed the screening of a film - about domestic violence - preceded by the opening of an exhibition for cartoons representing violence against women.
The courts recorded officially over the past year about 400 cases of violence against women, mostly physical and verbal, but the judges predicted that this is small figure compared to the cases within the community, where the victim cannot go to the prosecution. In the last year about 400 cases of violence against women were recorded in the Iraqi courts, mostly physical and verbal, in addition to cases of sexual, psychological and physical violence.
The Family Court judge Hussain Mubdar found that "most of the cases do not reach the courts, and that what was officially documented is the tip of the iceberg," adding that "the nature of Iraqi society prevent the woman from filing a complaint against the criminal whether, her father or husband.”
For his part, a member of the Supreme Judicial Council said that the courts have consistently the phenomenon of violence against women and are trying to develop solutions to them after identifying the causes and violence. According to the law, the violence is a behavior or humanitarian act of force, coercion and aggressive, committed by an individual, a group or state against another person for a specific purpose causing material or moral damage."
The judicial debates found that violence causes are mostly cultural, such as ignorance to deal with the other side and the lack of respect. They pointed out that "ignorance may be from women or those who exercise violence against them, pointing out that there is ignorance of women's rights. The judges settled that one of the main reasons for violence against women is the silence, acceptance and tolerance which makes the other party indulges in the violations.