WADI | 18.01.2012
1st ever conference on FGM in Middle East
FGM not merely an African problem; high rates in the Middle East...
IRIN NEWS | 13.01.2012
Link between FGM/C and mental disorders
New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research has...
EYE SEE MEDIA | 08.11.2011
Iraqi Kurdistan: Free yourself from FGM – A new approach
In a remote village called Toutakhel, hidden amidst the endless hills of Kurdish...
HUDSON NEW YORK | 18.08.2011
Female Genital Mutilation "An Obligation" According to Iraqi Muslim Cleric
 In June, the parliament of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) adopted a...
STOP FGM - the BLOG | 15.08.2011
Female Genital Mutilation “is an obligation” says Mullah
 A mullah in Iraqi-Kurdistan talked in a Friday sermon about the new bill against domestic violence...
Human Rights Watch | 25.07.2011
Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM a Positive Step
 Bill Shows Commitment to End Violence Against Women...
AKNEWS | 23.06.2011
Ban on female genital mutilation passed
 For the first time in Iraqi Kurdistan women are protected by a new law against some of...
AKNEWS | 19.06.2011
Bill to ban female genital mutilation before parliament
 The Kurdistan parliament will discuss a bill on domestic violence tomorrow, which proposes the...
kurdish globe | 17.04.2011
Campaign to end the pain
 A health awareness campaign becomes a stepping stone to a FGM-free generation...
US STATE DEP. | 08.04.2011
2010 Human Rights Report Iraq
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is not illegal and is a common practice particularly in the rural...
sargasso | 18.02.2011
"Vrouwenbesnijdenis vooral een probleem in moslimlanden"
Thomas von den Osten-Sacken van de Iraaks-Duitse mensenrechtenorganisatie...
RUDAW.nET | 05.02.2011
Female Circumcision Prohibited Says Islamic Law Professor
Dr. Mustafa Zalmi, a leading Kurdish Shariah law expert, has said female circumcision...
HUDSON NEW YORK | 06.12.2010
Iraqi Kurdistan Confronts Female Genital Mutilation
 As reported to the Centre for Islamic Pluralism by the non-governmental organization...
rudaw.net | 01.12.2010
Government Says 41 Percent of Kurdish Women Are Circumcised
 A survey by the Kurdistan Ministry of Health shows that 41 percent of women have gone under the...
Aswat Al Iraq | 28.11.2010
41% of women in Iraq’s Kurdistan circumcised – survey
 Some 41% of the women in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region were circumcised, a survey conducted...
RUDAW.net | 27.11.2010
Kurdistan Takes Measures Against Gender-Based Violence
 As Kurdistan is fast progressing, becoming democratized and westernized, it faces serious...
AKNEWS | 31.10.2010
Demand to outlaw female circumcision in Kurdistan
 The Kurdistan Health Ministry has planed for a conference on female circumcision practice in...
Human Rights Watch | 30.08.2010
Fighting Female Genital Mutilation
 In Iraqi Kurdistan, 40 percent of women and girls between the ages of 14 and 22 have been...
AKNEWS | 23.08.2010
Painting exhibition to campaign against FGM in Kurdistan
 A painting exhibition was opened in Qaladze town on Sunday, 135 km north east of Sulaimaniya...
FACEBOOK.COM | 15.08.2010
Kurdish Cleric defends FGM as religious practice
 Surgeon: Types 1 and 2 of FGM are medically permissible...
FACEBOOK.COM | 13.08.2010
FGM - The Unsolved Riddle?
 FGM has attracted a lot of attention after the publication of the HRW report, which came...
AKNEWS | 02.08.2010
Religious fatwa on FGM prcatices may have negative consequences, says NGO
 The representative of a German nongovernmental organization, WADI, stated the issued Fatwa...
RUDAW.NET | 02.08.2010
Circumcised Girls Have Less Marriage Chance in Kurdistan
 Muhammed Hassan, 22, is a single man who says one of the qualifications that his girlfriend...
guardian | 05.07.2010
The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq
 Mixture of motives persuades villages to maintain practice that often leaves lasting effects on...
time.com | 30.06.2010
Report: Female Circumcision in Iraqi Kurdistan Still High
 For many young girls in the world, a life-changing experience might be reaching puberty or...
GLOBALPOST | 21.06.2010
Shocking statistics on "female genital mutilation"
 Female circumcision a good idea? Ask 73 percent of Kurdistani women...
DAILYBEAST.COM | 17.06.2010
The Plight of Women in Northern Iraq
 Violence in Iraq has abated. But in Kurdistan in the north, women continue to suffer. A new report...
New york times | 16.06.2010
Kurdistan Is Urged to Ban Genital Cutting
 SULAIMANIYA, Iraq: Human Rights Watch urged Kurdistan’s government on Wednesday to...
Los angeles TIMES | 16.06.2010
Human Rights Watch slams high rates of female genital excision in Iraqi Kurdistan
“I still feel the fear,” Runak recalled as she told her story of undergoing genital excision at...
Human Rights Watch | 16.06.2010
Iraqi Kurdistan: Girls and Women Suffer Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation
Kurdistan Regional Government Should Outlaw the Practice...
Human rights watch | 15.06.2010
Pictures about FGM in Kurdistan and the work of WADI
A significant number of girls and women in Iraqi Kurdistan suffer femalegenital mutilation (FGM)...
The lancet | 06.03.2010
Reports focus on female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan
Campaigns against female genital mutilation have mainly targeted African nations, where most...
UNHCR | 03.03.2010
Women's Rights in Middle East and North Africa 2010: Iraq
Iraqi women's rights advocates, men and women alike, began their struggle for equality...
HUDSON NEW YORK | 03.03.2010
"Such Hadiths Are Not Confirmed To Be Authentic"
The repellent and, in too few countries, prohibited, practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)...
DE Volkskrant | 24.02.2010
Meerderheid van Koerdische vrouwen in Irak is besneden
Besnijdenis van meisjes komt op grote schaal voor onder de Koerden in het noorden... (dutch)
The Kurdish Globe | 21.02.2010
FGM, once a taboo now a breached silence
Encouraged by houses built by the KRG, Kulajo residents return home...
IWPR.NET | 11.02.2010
Female Circumcision Ban Urged
 New survey reveals that majority of women in Kurdistan have undergone genital mutilation...
RUDAW.NET | 24.01.2010
HRW: Kurdistan fails to combat female circumcision
 The recent 20th annual World Report of Human Rights Watch criticizes the Kurdistan Regional...
STOP FGM BLOG | 21.01.2010
The latest Human Rights Watch World Report
 Human Rights Watch mentions FGM in Iraqi-Kurdistan twice in its latest World Report...
KAMEEL AHMADY | 01.2010
A message from Iran
I have a message from Iran for you, written in a simple language, away from the many big words...

 

 

 

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The organizations WOLA (Women's Legal Assistance)
and WADI e.V. support the campaign:

WOLA (Women's Legal Assistance)
Sec. 116, St. 28, House 119
Dabashan
Opposite to Khalat secondary school
Suleymaniah
Kurdistan
Irak
Tel ++974-533136464
wola_org@yahoo.com

WOLA offers legal advice to women. Two lawyers represent women who have not legal representation in court. The lawyers also visit women in the rural areas, working in cooperation with the Mobile Teams. WOLA participates in lobbying for legal ban on FGM. WOLA advises the Teams on legal issues, provides legal help for women emergency cases, and takes part in evaluation and monitoring. WOLA works in cooperation with women’s shelters and local authorities. Women in gander can be offered a save place.

WADI e.V.
Herborner Str. 62
D-60439 Frankfurt a. M.
Tel ++49-69-57002440
Fax ++49-69-57002444
info@wadinet.de
www.wadinet.de

WADI is an independent, non-profit and non-partisan relief organization supporting  gender mainstreaming and women’s rights programs in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Israel. Beside the work in the region, WADI is lobbying in Europe for the rights of women and girls in Middle Eastern societies, for refugee rights and the democratization of the Mashreq region. All programs are run in close collaboration with local democratic and civil-rights organizations. Since 1995, WADI operates its own office in Iraqi Kurdistan. WADI is an active part of several networks of local women’s organizations and cooperates with a variety of local and international organizations and UN agencies.
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