By invitation of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and with the support of UNFPA, CGDS will hold an event during the 16 Days of Activism to investigate the safety of public spaces in Sulaimani for female university alumni and women with disabilities. This community circle, to be...
Choman Hardi is a Co-Director of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub, and Assistant Professor at The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.
On the morning of October 26, 2020, the city of Sulaimani woke up to a bold artistic feminist statement: that violence against women is far...
On November 9, 2020, member of CGDS and UNFPA met with Her Excellency Kwestan Mohamad Abdulla, the Minster of Labor and Social Affairs. Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of CGDS, Dr. Hawar Jamal, the UNFPA Project Manager for CGDS, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, and Ms. Azhee Amin,...
On November 9, 2020, CGDS traveled to Erbil to discuss progress on our UNFPA-funded project to improve equity for women in Kurdistan-Iraq. Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, Dr. Hawar Ameen, UNFPA Project Director, and Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, met with members of UNFPA, UN Women, and...
Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director of CGDS, presented “People with Disabilities in Kurdistan-Iraq By The Numbers” at the World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference on Thursday, November 5, 2020. Dr. Lynn presented a collage of statistics intermingled with voices of people with disabilities from the region. The conference was...
Mr. Saman Hussain, the President of the Handicapped Union of Kurdistan, hosted CGDS on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. He and other officers and members of the organization spoke with Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, and Ms. Tara Burhan, CGDS’s EU MENA Liaison. Founded in 1996, the entire...
