{"id":1006,"date":"2003-03-07T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"pascale-isho-delegation-participant-and-president-of-the-assyrian-womens-union-07032003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/pascale-isho-delegation-participant-and-president-of-the-assyrian-womens-union-07032003\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascale Isho, delegation participant and president of the Assyrian Women\u2019s Union (07\/03\/2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The women gathered not to mourn their losses, but to talk about rebuilding Iraq\u2019s civil society and to identify solutions which would lead to freedom and democracy in Iraq. They were members of a panel at a seminar called “The Unheard Voices of Iraqi Women”, organised by the International Alliance for Justice (AIJ), with Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee.
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The AIJ delegation also met with officials from the European Commission\u2019s Directorate Generale for External Relations and from the Commissioner Chris Patten\u2019s cabinet.
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“The European Union should understand that 95 per cent of Iraqi people are against the Iraqi regime. The women requested the EU members to ask for the Saddam Hussein\u2019s resignation, and to declare his regime as \u2019outlaw\u2019,” said Aida Ussayran, member of the executive committee of the Union of Iraqi Democrats.
“We call on all the EU bodies, regardless of their position towards military enforcement of UNSC Resolution 1441, to fully support establishing an international tribunal for holding Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime to account for the crimes it has committed against human rights and issue concrete political statements to that effect,” said another delegation member.
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AIJ calls on the European Union to invest in its relationship with the Iraqi people — and not Baghdad\u2019s dictator — to support the creation of an international inquiry on missing people as well as support the rehabilitation of Iraq\u2019s Marshlands. There are four million refugees and 900 000 internally displaced persons in Iraq. EU should support a democratic future for Iraq, the rule of law, a new family code respectful of women\u2019s rights and a real participation of women in the decision-making process.
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The Iraqi women, who have shared great suffering, also share the same aspiration: they want their country to be freed from the repression of Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime. They hope that their testimonies will help the international community understand the pain and mistreatments that Saddam Hussein has inflicted on the Iraqi people.
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“For three decades, the Iraqi women have lived under an extraordinary brutal regime. Since October 2000, more than 150 women were decapitated under the pretext of prostitution”, said Pascale Isho, delegation participant and president of the Assyrian Women\u2019s Union.
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According to Safia Al Souhail, AIJ advocacy director for Middle East, “Iraq has become a land of agony, dismay and fear; a country where people are ethnically cleansed. Iraq under Saddam has become a hell.”
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For further information, please contact:
Fran\u00e7oise Bri\u00e9
Tel: +33 1 48 00 03 20
E-mail : aij@noos.fr
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