Manal Yunis (born 1929) is an Iraqi women's leader. She was among the leading figures of the

Ba'ath Party The Arab Socialist Baʿath Party ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي ' ) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bītār, and associates of Zaki al-ʾArsūzī. The party espoused B ...

during the rule of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

Biography

A lawyer from

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

, Manal Yunis joined the Ba'ath Party in 1962. In 1969 she helped found the

General Federation of Iraqi Women The General Federation of Iraqi Women (GFIW) or General Union of Iraqi Women is an Iraqi women's organization founded by the Ba'ath Party in 1969. The GFIW was officially founded by Nawal Hilmi, Manal Younis and Ramzia Al-Khairou on April 4, 1969. ...

(GFIW),Andrea Laurenz
Iraqi Women Preserve Gains Despite Wartime Problems
''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', July 1989 and she served in several different Ba'ath Party posts. Saddam Hussein appointed her to head the GFIW in 1979. After Saddam was toppled from power, she died later on.Febe Armanios. (5 May 2004)
Women in Iraq: Background and Issues for U.S. Policy
CRS Report for Congress.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yunis, Manal 1929 births Living people Iraqi women's rights activists 20th-century Iraqi lawyers Politicians from Baghdad Ba'ath Party politicians 20th-century Iraqi women politicians 20th-century Iraqi politicians