Women in Iraq
Huge kudos to Juan Cole for this blog post today that covers Tuesday's very important demonstrations in Iraq Tuesday protesting the IGC's summary imposition of religious laws over all areas of personal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc).
Under the latest IGC ruling Iraq, which until now has had real legal equality for women (and a high degree of actual equality for women in workplaces and schools), will join other Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel that allow the local religious institutions to impose their own forms of inequality over vast areas of women's lives.
Shame! Shame! (And of course, under the Hague and Geneva Conventions, quite an illegal thing for anyone running an occupation administration to do.)