Manal Yunis

Manal Yunis al-Alusi (born 1929) is an Iraqi women's leader.

A lawyer from Baghdad, Manal Yunis joined the Ba'ath Party in 1962.[1] In 1969 she helped found the General Federation of Iraqi Women (GFIW),[2] and she served in several different Ba'ath Party posts.[1]

Saddam Hussein appointed her to head the GFIW in 1979.[3] After Saddam was toppled from power, she was rumoured to have fled Iraq in August 2003.[4]

References
  1. Beth K. Dougherty; Edmund A. Ghareeb (2013). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3.
  2. Andrea Laurenz, Iraqi Women Preserve Gains Despite Wartime Problems, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 1989
  3. Christina Asquith (2011). Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq. Random House Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-58836-761-7.
  4. Febe Armanios, Women in Iraq: Background and Issues for U.S. Policy, CRS Report for Congress, May 5, 2004.
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