The Escalation of Violence against Women in Kurdistan –Iraq

The Escalation of Violence against Women in Kurdistan –Iraq

Officials revealed in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on the escalation of violence against women with the complexities of social increase with the expansion of communications technology, while parliamentarians proposed laws include sanctions to curb this phenomenon.

And spread of domestic violence in the Kurdish areas so that the registration of perpetrating acts of violence against wives and sisters is a daily act. The statistics of Directorate to follow-up violence against women, which followed to the Ministry of the Interior in the region that violence index against women on the rise. This Authority is competent to documenting and recording cases of violence against women and sheltering them from being beaten or any other type of violence.

For his part, MR. Sarkawt Omar attributed the report who is in charge of the Directorate of follow-up of violence against women in Sulaymaniyah governorate cause of violence against women to "the economic situation faced by Kurdish women and lack of private income and dependence on her husband to live." He added that "the role of modern technology and a clear cause of instances of violence against women."

In turn, reveal the statistics the police directorate in the province that "violence against women is on the rise so the number of cases recorded by the police stations and 1079 cases, compared with 715 cases in 2008." The figures indicate that fewer women are killed, "Twenty women have been killed in 2008 on charges of honor, while the number fell to 17 cases of murder in 2009." But the "self-immolation cases rose from 119 cases in 2008 to 245 last year."

The last cases of suicide in the days in Shwan district between Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah (50 km north of Kirkuk). Tahseen darweesh said, Administrator of the police in terms that a row erupted between a man and his wife around watching a television program developed into a brawl led to the suicide of the wife, a mother of seven children.
Darwish explained that: "The husband had assaulted his wife and seven children beaten after a dispute over watching TV wife rushed to the fire on from a pistol in her room and died immediately." He added that "the arrest of her husband on charges of incitement to murder and will be referred to the courts for trial." In turn, Susan Shihab the President Kurdish bloc in the Parliament of the Region stressed, a coalition of two major parties and running 57 seats out of 111, "the need to enact a special law to curb the phenomenon of violence against women."

Suzanne Shahab Said, "We need to enact a special law and a number of social workers to work on cases of violence and reduce the aggravation and to determine the motive and the reasons they occur." "I was talking about domestic violence perpetrated against women is a taboo in the past, but now media can easily be addressed, which drew attention to the phenomenon in recent years."

Suzanne Shahab attributed the causes of growing number of violence to new technologies saying "Now women can educate themselves and take advantage of modern technologies, but men do not accept the new reality of this problem and lead to the occurrence of more cases of violence." And considered that "the cultural background of the men in Kurdistan do not encourage the acceptance of the changes in the level of thought and awareness of women in the light of the growing role of technology."

For her part, announced that Mohammad Kohistan President Change opposition bloc (25 seats) for the preparation of a draft law to address violence against women submitted to parliament for discussion and approval during the next legislative term. She said: "It is scheduled to begin debate on the draft prepared by the Parliament Committee for the Defense of Women s Rights in March, the law limits the issuing of cases of violence against women being included insults, beatings and genital mutilation and honor killings."

She noticed that the bill sanctions, "a prison term ranging from three months of those who assault by beating on women, and imprisonment for one year to those who hits his wife has left traces on her body and three years in prison for those who have injured his cause disease and psychological contract." Kohistan, and followed that "incitement to murder sentence of ten to fifteen years, as well as those who practice FGM."

It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of girls in the region are subjected to genital mutilation, according to the statistics-based to local organizations.


Ms. Browa Ali, is an active in the field of women s rights, she prefers to reduce the phenomenon of violence through awareness of men to dangers of violence "family and social role seriously in attempts to reduce violence."

And considered that: "It is not reasonable to cover up the crimes committed against women under the pretext of maintaining secrets home. Therefore, the duties of the Kurdistan Parliament enact a law to deal with it." For her part, Chemin Salih, manager for the Kurdistan site Online-mail that violence has become a phenomenon in the Kurdistan region of Iraq "caused by the inherited social and cultural impact of religious ideas."

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