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Rights/  /July 03, 2004

Interesting customer review of the US Constitution at Amazon:

Lacks the explicit protections of, for example, the new Iraqi Constitution, which contains an explicit right to privacy (Art. 13(H)); states that: "All Iraqis are equal in their rights without regard to gender, sect, opinion, belief, nationality, religion, or origin, and they are equal before the law. Discrimination against an Iraqi citizen on the basis of his gender, nationality, religion, or origin is prohibited. Everyone has the right...

Does that really say, "Discrimination ... on the basis of his gender"? Yes, it does. Gender being as it is a construction, I suppose it's possible to discriminate amongst a group of men on the basis of their gender. But what about women? Don't they have a right to protection from gender-based discrimination too?

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Check out Article 1B. Apparently they've specifically defined "him" to mean "her", which would mean that Iraqi women are protected against gender-based discrimination according to that constitution.

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