On October 7th, 2020, CGDS traveled to Erbil to meet with the High Council of Women’s Affairs and representatives of UN-Women to discuss our joint project with UNFPA, focusing on the research project on women’s leadership in the KRI. Dr. Choman, CGDS Director, summarized our activity to date on our project on women in governmental positions of power. Dr. Hawar, the UNFPA Project Manager, summarized our steps toward evaluating the COMBI Plan. Dr. Lynn, CGDS Deputy Director, also attended.
Photo description: Five people sit at a table in a room with a cream-colored wall on the left right and a beige, faux-paneled wall with a door to the right. A window in the paneled wall has a view of the top of a brick building. Clockwise from the left, we see a woman wearing a black jacket, beige hijab, and a black mask; a man with dark hair wearing a button-down white shirt with a dark beige jacket and a blue mask; a man with white hair wearing a light blue button down shirt with a dark blue lanyard and light blue mask; the partial face of a woman with grey hair wearing a blue mask, obscured by a woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a grey jacket and a black mask; and a woman, who is speaking and at whom almost everyone is looking, with shoulder-length curly hair, glasses, a black jacket, green dress, and colorful scarf, with a leopard-print mask pulled down around her chin. Bottles of hand sanitizer and water, boxes of tissues, and several laptop computers are on the table.