In Iraq -- Iraqi women seek power to safeguard rights

(top o' the hat to ARTHUR CHRENKOFF.

SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Iraqi women seek power to safeguard rights BAGHDAD – They head the ministries of environment, agriculture, public works, migration, labor and social affairs, and the ministry for women. They have 31 percent representation in Iraq's new parliament.

Yet Iraqi women want more power in the country's nascent political system to ensure their rights are protected from any bid to replace civil law with Islamic Sharia and create what they say would be a new dictatorship.