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 the Kurdistan High Council of Women’s Affairs. We discussed the projects on which we are working together, and the specific ways forward.
Photo Description: Seven people sit at a rectangular table. On the left side, we see three people—a fourth is obscured except for a sliver of her hair. A man with dark hair, wearing a blue mask and a blue shirt is in the foreground,; next to him, a man with dark hair, wearing a black mask and dark tan jacket, sits with his arms on the table. A woman with long, light hair, also masked, with sunglasses pushed up on her head, sits at the end of the table. We see the top of a building through a large window. On the right-hand side of the table are three women. The woman at the far end, with glasses and long hair pulled back, wears a mask pushed down to her chin. Next to her, a woman with dark, curly hair, her mask pushed to her chin, looks at the camera. The woman closest to the camera, with shoulder-length light hair wearing a black jacket, has her back to the camera.