On Sunday, December 1st 2019, Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of CGDS, conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop for 21 female participants from Suliamani, Halabja, Erbil and Duhok. The training was a part of a 6 day training manual titled “Women Can Do it”. It was arranged by People‘s...
CGDS partnered with the Embassy of Canada to Iraq to organize a three day comics workshop at the American University of Iraq- Sulaimani. Mr. Shirwan Can, the founder of Karge Comics Studio, facilitated the workshops, in which students worked together to produce stories and illustrate them....
On Thursday, October 24th, 2019, His Excellency Dr. Aram Mohammed welcomed a delegation from CGDS to his offices in Erbil. The Minister of Higher Education stated his support for the work of CGDS. We discussed how to go forward with the August 2018 MoHE decree to establish gender...
Dr. Lynn Rose attended the Fourth World Disability Conference, where her paper, “Disability Perceptions and Policy in Sulaimani, Kurdistan,” was named Best Session Paper. The paper summarized CGDS’s activities in educating K-12 students about disability social justice as part of the EU grant to promote gender equity in Iraq...
On October 29th, 2019 Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS’s founder and director, read some of her poetry, spoke about gender inequality in the Middle East, and highlighted CGDS’s activities, goals, and needs to an audience of about 50 people in New York. The dinner, which was entitled “On Storytelling for...
On Tuesday, October 29th, 2019, representatives from The Migrant Project visited CGDS. Mr. Hawar Anwar Ali, the Project Coordinator, and Ms. Nasik Kadir, the local migrant expert, explained the aims and goals of their NGO to Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, and Mr. Shko Shwan, EU Project manager....
