'My name is my mother's name': Draft bill in Iraqi parliament to identify children by mothers' name

Women‌‌ 11:50 AM - 2021-02-01

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The Iraqi Parliamentary Women and Children Committee confirmed, on Sunday, that it is preparing a draft bill under the name 'My name is my mother's name' for children with unknown fathers to be able to hold mother's name on their IDs instead of fathers.

 

MP Rezan Sheikh Dler, MP of the PUK bloc in the Council of Representatives, said during a special statement to PUKmedia, on Sunday that there is a bill prepared by civil organizations in Sulaymaniyah under the name 'My name is my mother's name'.

 

MP Sheikh Dler said: "We must be like other countries of the world, where the child has the nationality of mother and has mother's name on their IDs to solve cases where the father is unknown."

 

She added: "The committee has been working for two years to enact a draft of the bill," pointing out that it will include Yazidi children born from an ISIS fathers, and will work to solve the problem of these children, since the Yazidi component refuses to register their children as Muslims in the ID cards.

 

Sheikh Dler confirmed that naming the person by the name of his mother exists inside the country.

 

She noted that according to Islam beliefs, when a person dies, he/she is called in the name of his mother during the indoctrination of the deceased, as well as in the Christian religion, the Prophet of God Jesus is called (Jesus son of Mary), stressing that there is no legal objection to the enactment of this law.

 

The member of the Women and Children Committee indicated that this law will be enacted in the Iraqi Parliament first and then it will reach the Kurdistan Parliament, suggesting that the law may meet the acceptance of the Iraqi street by 5% as she put it.

 

 

 

PUKmedia