Help Defeat Article 14:
Defend the Rights of Iraqi Women

MADRE needs your help to circulate an open letter to Zalmay Khalilzad, the new US Ambassador to Iraq, urging the US to meet its obligations under international law and uphold the human rights of Iraqi women.

Please follow this link, then click on the email icon to send the open letter to Ambassador Khalilzad. You can copy and sign the following statement, or insert your own comments in the message box. Please address the email to Ambassador Khalilzad, at usconsulbaghdad@state.gov, and MADRE, at madre@madre.org.

For more information about Article 14 and its threat to Iraqi women's rights, please see the background information below the sample statement.

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Sample Statement:

To the Honorable Ambassador Khalilzad,

I am writing to call your attention to this open letter from MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, which supports the call of Iraqi women's organizations for the immediate repeal of Article 14 of Iraq's draft constitution.

Article 14 poses a grave threat to the rights of Iraqi women, to core principles of democratic governance, and to the primacy of international law. I urge you to stand in support of Iraqi women who are calling on the United States to meet its legal obligations under the Hague Convention, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 to uphold the internationally recognized rights of Iraqi women under US occupation.

Sincerely,