"Structural violence in the Personal Status Law Amendment Law No. (1) of

Abstract

This research aims to identify the legal basis of Federal Law No. (1) of 2025 amending the Iraqi Personal Status Law No. (188) of 1959 on the one hand, and on the other hand to review this amending law, which Shiite jurists have been preparing for for more than a century, whether by their categorical rejection of the first attempts made by the Iraqi government since the founding of the Iraqi state to legislate the Iraqi Personal Status Law No. (188) of 1959 and even after it became an applicable law, and to this day. This has clearly appeared in the reasons for this recent amendment issued by the Iraqi Council of Representatives. Therefore, we will address all these paragraphs in turn, stating the legal basis on which the supporters of this amendment rely and stating their arguments and justifications versus the arguments and justifications of the opposing opposing party, and confronting it from civil society and feminist pressure groups because it represents an infringement of the rights of Iraqi womenKeywords: Structural and Cultural Violence, Personal Conditions, Gender Consideration, Weak Violence, Copyrighted Laws