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...
On November 4, 2020, CGDS visited the organizations for deaf people and for people of short stature. Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director of CGDS and Ms. Tara Burhan, EU MENA Liaison, met with the management of both organizations; Mr. Shakir (Muhammad Usman), CGDS’s Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, was...
On Thursday, October 15, 2020, medialine.org , a news organization featuring news in the Middle East, hosted “Rising Kurdistan.” The main topic of this one-day event was young people’s contribution to social and political change in Kurdistan. The keynote speaker was Mr. Karwan Jamal Tahir, Kurdistan Regional Government...
