Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS founder and director, participated in events celebrating the 19th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in New York. The week-long activities focused on discussing progress, obstacles, limitations, and ways forward.
Dr. Hardi took part in the UNWomen's Multi-stakeholder Forum on October 28th....
On October 21st, 2019, CGDS team members Dr. Choman Hardi, Sewe Kader, Shko Shwan, and Hawar Jamal, had a meeting with Mouna Ghanem, Priscilla Megalaa, Nora Rathje, Ilkka Uusitalo, and Ayham Azzam from the Berghof Foundation. The Berghof Foundation is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is based in...
Women in Sulaimani were invited by Horizon Relief, an NGO, to exhibit and sell their art and handicrafts. CGDS attended the event, which was held at the Sulaimani Library, on Saturday, October 19 th , 2019. In addition to crafts, a wide variety of traditional Kurdish food was on...
In order to work together to implement the August 2018 ministerial decree to implement gender education in institutions of higher education throughout the KRG, CGDS traveled to Erbil on Sunday, October 13 th , 2019. Present at this planning meeting were Ms . Amal Jalal, Director General of the...
Dr. Choman Hardi, Dr. Lynn Rose, and Mr. Miran Fattah visited Mr. Jamal Hussain, Director General in the Ministry of Culture, in his Erbil offices, on Sunday, October 13 th , 2019. Along with exchanging basic updates about each other’s work, we discussed progress with the August 2018...
On Sunday, October 13 th , a CGDS Team traveled to Erbil to meet with representatives of MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization. The MADRE team consisted of three lawyers, members from the organization’s Legal Advocacy arm. J.M. Kirby and Lisa Davis were visiting from New York; a...
