روان :
To everyone who has a voice that can be heard, and to everyone who has the ability to do something for women in Iraq and help bring about change: please, help my voice reach women’s rights organizations.
Imagine being born into a life that feels like a prison. Imagine being told that your entire existence must revolve around a husband and a child — that your worth is determined by how well you please them, how silently you endure what is unbearable, and how much of yourself you are willing to sacrifice.
And then, the very child you devoted your life to can be taken away from you.
In my country, women have been given only an extremely narrow space to live as human beings. We are expected to be mothers, wives, and caregivers before we are allowed to be individuals with our own dreams, choices, voices, and private lives.
And now, even motherhood itself can be taken away from us.
How much more must women lose before the world listens to us?
Please, hear our voices. Please, help make our existence visible. And please, do not let Iraqi women continue to disappear behind laws, traditions, and systems that were never built to protect them.
2026-09-30 22:16:57