Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 – 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement.
Throughout that period, she faced harassment from the royal security apparatus because she sympathized with the poor and cared for them for free at her clinic in the Shawakah district.
In response, some of the signatories led by al-Dulaimi decided to set up this organization clandestinely after changing the name to the League for Defending Iraqi Woman's Rights.
With its membership rising to 42,000 (from a total population of 8 million citizens), it achieved many gains for Iraqi women, in particular the Personal Status Law No.
After the monarchy was overthrown, she was appointed by President Abd al-Karim Qasim as Minister of Municipalities in the 1959 cabinet[9] as the sole representative of the ICP in his republican government.
She was forced to leave the country and go into exile several times, although she continued to aid the work of the Communist party, the women's movement, and democratic rights.
In the late 1970s, when the ruling dictatorial clique was preparing to launch its campaign against the Iraqi Communist Party, she was a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee.
She played a prominent role in the leadership of the Committee for the Defense of the Iraqi People, which was set up after the leftist coup on February 8, 1963.