CPA is working to increase women’s participation in government. The Governing Council’s March 1 agreement on the Transitional Administrative Law includes language calling for an election system to be designed with the goal of no less than 25 percent representation of women in the interim national assembly. CPA’s Office for Women’s Affairs has set up […]
CPA has supported various conferences that engage several political parties in creating common agendas and promote alliances that will strengthen the ability of these parties to participate in the forthcoming political process. The assistance encourages political parties to develop strategies to achieve their goals through the political transition, and to work for the establishment of […]
Hundreds of meetings, large and small, have been taking place across Iraq since late December, 2003, focusing on issues related to Iraq’s democratic transition. To date, there have been 17 televised Town Halls held in all areas of the country with five more scheduled by the end of March. Countless smaller meetings have been held […]
CPA has facilitated the refreshment of Provincial Councils in twelve governorates in Iraq. The new Councils are more representative of their populations, in terms of gender and ethnicity. Baghdad has established a Provincial Council for the first time and is in the process of selecting a Governor through a participatory process. In addition, hundreds of […]
The Transitional Administrative Law will be the Supreme Law of Iraq, during the transitional period. It will expire once a government is elected under a permanent constitution and take office by the end of 2005.
All 25 of Iraq?s Governing Council Members - Shiia, Sunni, Kurd, Christian, Turkmen, women and men - were represented at […]
The Iraq government was structured to repress and isolate the Iraqi people from the rest of the world and set individual against individual, neighbor against neighbor, ethnic group against ethnic group, and religious group against religious group.
After liberation, it was clear that the Iraqi people had always wanted to be free, and would never […]
