AL-Haddad on International Women’s Day: Empowering women to participate in the political process and exercise their role in state institutions will enhance stability and prosperity.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Celebration of Women, Monday 3/8/2021, the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Bashir Khalil Al-Haddad, with great pride, presented the finest verses of congratulations and blessings to the Iraqi woman on her annual day, Recalling his Eminence the great role of women and their bright history in all times and eras and their high entitlement beside of men in the building and maintaining the family, While the Deputy Speaker of the Council highly appreciated the struggle of the Kurdish woman and standing with her Peshmerga husband throughout the years of mass revolutions for freedom and democracy, stressing the need for her active participation in the executive authority and continuing to work from various locations to improve the conditions of women through legislation and laws and obtain their rights.
Al-Haddad, and in this statement issued, said: “Empowering women to participate in the political process and exercise their role in state institutions will enhance stability and prosperity. Here we must greet women in the White Army from the first front line, and we look forward to a greater role and responsibilities in protecting family members from the danger of the Coronavirus pandemic, adherence to health guidelines and instructions, and overcoming this ordeal soon with His Almighty permission, stressing his Eminence for the Council’s presidium to continue to provide support and assistance to women to achieve their hopes, goals and enhance their role in society in line with their energies, capabilities and competence in work and in the field.
Media Office of the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives
Monday 8 March 2021