الأوضاع النفسية والإجتماعية لنساء الأقليات في العراق )دراسة ميدانية(

Abstract

The study present a detailed description of the new violent situation that those women faced after 2003 in Iraqi society and the effect of such violence and security breaking down on minority women perception and feeling of bonding or adaptation with this society and how they look to the aaceptance of the society to them and their minority group as a whole. In addition to the impact of these social changes after 2003,on the women rights and personal freedom. One of the aims of the study is to provide data base to be used when efforts present to put a policies or programs for supporting the minority women. Another aim is to point out and define the violations commited on the rights of those women. The field survey included 2100 women from the most important minority communities within Iraqi society. The most important findings of the field study was: - Decline in women's sense of belonging to the Iraqi society and its decline from what it was before 2003, while the sense of belonging after 2003 increased in women from the minority Kurds Faili. Also dropped acceptancesense of minority womento society and their integration in it. - The armed conflict and the deteriorating security situation comes first among the factors contributing to the lack of a sense of belonging, followed by the deterioration of services. Then comes the third grade in the lack of personal freedom as a factor of low sense of belonging. - Increased restrictions imposed by the family of women from minorities after 2003. -That the majority of women belonging to minorities lackthe freedom about the issues relating to marriage and divorce planning. And that the religious factor is the most influential obstacle to the freedom of women in their conditions, followed by family in terms of impact strength. Minority community came in third. The economic factor came in last in terms of impact. - More than half of the sample can not practice their religion and ceremonies freely ,the deteriorating security situation is the most influential factor on the freedom to practice their rites. Targeting places of worship comes secondly. - There is a tendency for some women belonging to minorities to hide everything that symbolizes affiliation in order to avoid others harmfulness or assaultation. - The vast majority of those women, live in a state of fear and a sense of threat to their lives.