Dr. Hawzhin Azeez will join the Center for Gender and Development Studies as a full-semester Visiting Scholar. Dr. Hawzhin, whose PhD is from the University of Newcastle, Australia, works on a variety of topics in Political Science, with a focus on nation building and post war reconstruction....
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director and Professor in the Social Sciences, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the 4th World Disability & Rehabilitation Conference 2019 (WDRC 2019), to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2019. The paper, “Disability Perceptions and Policy in Sulaimani, Kurdistan,” links the...
On Thursday, August 1 st , the Center for Gender and Development Studies team held a full-day workshop on gender and media for 12 employees of KirkukNow, an independent electronic news website. This event was part of the Gender Studies workshop series, funded by the CGDS European Union grant for...
On July 30th, 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and EU Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, Mr. Rasti Ranj, met with the Iraqi Women’s Network in Baghdad as part of our EU project outreach. The main purposes of the meeting were...
On July 30, 2019, the Center for Gender and Development Studies visited Cihan University Sulimaniya, which hosted a forum for universities and NGOs to discuss implementing the government decree (August 2019), to establish gender centers in all universities. The opening speakers introduced issues of implementation such as the gender studies...
The overall objective of the consultative meeting in Iraq and Kurdistan Regional of Iraq (KRI) was to have a discussion with partners from Governments, civil society organizations, UN Agencies and donors on the new UNFPA Country Programme 2020-2024. The discussion is to agree on the outline, general directions, main interventions...
