On October 18, 2021 , Dr. Choman presented “ Gender and D evelopment : C hallenges and O pportunities for W omen’s E mpowerment in Iraq ” at the Norwegian Refugee Council Panel Discussion (via Zoom). Other speakers included...
On 14 October, 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, participated in the Alternative Human Rights Expo, organized by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and more than 25 partners, and held online. The event featured the work of several international artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets, who are also...
On Wednesday evening, 29 September, 2021, Dr. Choman, CGDS founder and director, participated in an event and highlighted the importance of poetry as a tool for resistance, helping us to feel the sadness and outrage that are necessary to fight back. The event was in celebration of Banned...
CGDS is happy to announce the arrival of our second Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, Ms. Alina Jabbari. Ms. Alina is interdisciplinarily educated, having obtained a BA in law and MA in global criminology at Utrecht University and a second MA in...
CGDS is pleased to announce that Mr. Renwar Najm has completed the first part of his work toward an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is attending an international and interdisciplinary two-year program focusing on violent conflict, as well as its prevention and management. The program is...
On Wednesday, the 11 th of August 2021, the Center for Gender and Development Studies team conducted a focus group discussion (FGD) in Sulaimani at AUIS. This FGD was part of our gender-based violence research project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, funded by The United Nations Population...
