Is there an NGO to parliament pipeline for Iraqi women?

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2023-01

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In the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraqi women broke their record for the most seats ever won by female candidates in Iraq’s post-2003 history, reaching 95 seats in a 329-seat legislature. Even more notable is that 57 of these women won their seat without the need for Iraq’s 25% women’s quota to kick in. On the surface, these are respectable gains for a country that has undergone regime change only two decades ago, but deeper analysis reveals that this is a quantitative – but not necessarily qualitative – success.

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WOMEN IN POLITICS, WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST

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