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Iraqi constitution draft severely curtails women's rights

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Iraqi constitution draft severely curtails women's rights
Wed Jul 20, 4:02 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A draft of Iraq's new constitution would greatly curtail women's rights, imposing the Sharia or Koranic law in personal matters like marriage, divorce and inheritance, as well as their representation in parliament, The New York Times said.

A draft of a chapter of the new constitution, obtained by the daily, would guarantee legal rights for women, as long as they do not "violate Sharia," meaning that Shiite women could not marry without their family's permission and that husbands could divorce them simply by saying so out loud three times.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050720/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqconstitution

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