Women leaders meet with Amb Bremer

Yeah, I know, Konkel, it doesn't fault the Bush Administration, so it's another step backwards.

PRESS RELEASE

Coalition Provisional Authority



April 30, 2004

WOMEN?S GROUP MEETS WITH BREMER

Role of Women, Security and Economy Discussed

Baghdad ? A group of women leaders met with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer on Friday morning to discuss security, the economy and the role of Iraqi women in the political process. During the meeting, Bremer advised the nine members of the Advisory Committee on Women?s Affairs (ACWA) to share their concerns about elections and the future of women with United Nations Representative Lakhdar Brahimi.

?We were here to express our feelings about the current situation and the future of women in the interim government of Iraq, and also to assess the women?s situation and other matters in the last year,? said attendee and Deputy Minister of Culture Maysoon al-Damluji.

ACWA was formed in December 2003 as the political arm of the Higher Council of Women. The group?s mission is to mobilize women to take an active role in the emerging democratic structures embodied in the November 15th Agreement (Transitional Administrative Law, Transitional National Assembly). ACWA is headed by Municipalities and Public Works Minister Nesreen Berwari.