On August 17 2022, CGDS Director of Disability Studies Dr. Lynn Rose, along with APP Director Ms. Zimkitha Mpatheni and translator Ms. Shabang Sardar, visited the Halabja Disability Organization. The director of the organization, Mr. Mariwan Wahbi Rashid, along with Ms. Nyan Aziz, Mr. Rastgo Adil, and their...
On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, the British Consul General David Hunt and his team visited CGDS. Representing CGDS were CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi; Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies; and Dr. Twana A. Hassan, CGDS Research Fellow. Ms. Shanya Mohammed, CGDS Project Officer was also...
On 29 May 2022, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi, along with Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies, were hosted by the British Consulate-General of Erbil. With Political Officer Mr. Salar Amin; Mr. Oliver Dixon, Head of the Iraq Team; and Mr. James Charlton, Head of the...
On May 3 2021, Dr. Rita Columbia, the UNFPA Country Representative for Iraq, met with President Bruce Ferguson, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi, Deputy Director Dr. Lynn Rose, and UNFPA Project Manager Dr. Hawar Ameen. Dr. Columbia, an expert in public health and sexual and reproductive health, took...
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, presented her paper, “Disability in Kurdistan-Iraq by the Numbers,” at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting on Saturday, March 27, 2021. She also chaired the session “Disability and Development,” which was part of the strand for the Society for Disability Studies. The conference, held...
On Thursday, April 1 2021, CGDS along with the department of Social Sience at the American University Iraq, Sulaimani organized an open forum "Israel- Palestine and Iraq-Kurdistan Conflicts - The Similarities, Lessons and the Way Forward" in which four AUIS students presented research that resulted from their work...
With thanks to the UNFPA, which supports us is empowering women and combatting GBV, CGDS hosted a morning movie on Thursday, March 11, 2021 for the women of disability advocacy organizations in Sulaimani. Twenty-five women from Autism Blue, the Blind Union, the Handicap Union, Rozh Society, and the...
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, visited three disability advocacy organizations in Somalia and one in Ethiopia during the third week of March, 2021. She met first with SODEN, the Somalia Organization for Disability Empowerment Network, in Mogadishu. SODEN serves people with disabilities of all types, and focuses...
It was after learning about feminism and human rights in his university classes that Zheera Hassan, an English literature major, decided to pursue the gender studies minor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. “These were things that I wanted to see in society,” he says.
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