The Center for Gender and Development Studies is pleased to announce that Mr. Ali Hussein Azeez Abo-Jadya received a full scholarship with Arizona State University for an online masters degree in Business Analytics. This is an eighteen-month award, funded by Al Ghurair Foundation for Education. Pending final acceptance from the...
Representatives from DCO (Dialogue and Culture, an NGO founded in 2015 and active in 162 countries), visited the Center for Gender and Development Studies on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Ms. Srusht Rauf Amin and Mr. Mohammed Abdulaziz are in the process of creating connections locally and internationally, and reached out...
On June 3, 2019, CGDS Director, Dr. Choman Hardi gave a poetry reading at King’s College London (KCL). This was part of a two-day workshop, “Visual Embodied Methodologies.” The workshop built on KCL’s emerging network to relocate visual, embodied, and art-based methodologies from the margins of social science research in...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director of CGDS, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the Second International Conference on Disability and Diversity in Asia, to be held September 24th and 25th 2019 at the Universitas Brawijaya Law...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) announced today the...
On April 29, 2019, CGDS, as part of the Gender Balance Group of the 9th Cabinet, met with the Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament, Dr. Vala Fareed, held a Press Conference, and met with the High Council of Women's Affairs, requesting support to...
Clarification statement by the Center for Gender and Development Studies
On April 17th, 2019, Dr. Nazand Begikhani published an article in Rudaw entitled ‘A few truths about the history of the gender centers in Kurdistan,’ making several false claims. Based on...
On Monday, April 29th, 2019, The Center for Gender and Development Studies presented a workshop, “The Gender Dimension: Feminist Scholarship” to about 20 students and staff at the University of Kufa in Najaf, Iraq. Dr. Alaa Hussain Al-Rihimi, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, expressed interest in collaborating with CGDS...
