Voluntary social legal awareness session

Baghdad_Women_Association –  Listening and Social Guidance Center in Al-Nasir implemented a voluntary awareness session in Harith Al-Akira association -Alrashad in the topic of the ratification of the marriage contract in the Personal Status Law within the project of “Strengthening Access to Protection, Participation and Services for women Refugees, Internally Displaced People IDPs and women in Host Communities in Iraq” Funded by the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, “MADAD Fund” with the support of Euro Med Feminist Initiative (EFI) on October 5, 2019.

The meeting was attended by (27) women and included how to ratify the marriage contract and what are the effects of marriage outside the court and alert to the need to maintain personal documents to facilitate the task of ratifying the contract within courts.

At the end of the session, women expressed their gratitude for such sessions to enable them to know their legal rights.