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 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...
Twenty five years ago, UNFPA hosted the first International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, focusing on population development, women’s health, and women’s rights. To commemorate that event, celebrate progress, and encourage governments to recommit to the agenda, UNFPA hosted the 25 th Anniversary Conference, ¨25...
On Sunday and Monday, July 21st and 22nd, the Center for Gender and Development Studies Team held a workshop on gender awareness. This event, part of the Gender Studies Summer School, funded by the CGDS European Union grant for gender education in the MENA Region, in collaboration with United Nations...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies, with friends and supporters from the university and the community, celebrated the launch of our research project on July 17, 2019. We were awarded a five-year grant totaling over a million dollars to research Masculinities and Violence. After opening remarks by President Bruce,...
Dr. Choman Hardi, AUIS Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), was published this month in the London School of Economics (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Security Working Paper Series. Her paper, titled ‘Gender Issues in the Context of a Humanitarian Crisis,’ draws...
CGDS attended the premiere of “Begin Now,” a short film produced by the Rasan Organization. The film, shown at the Red Museum on July 4, 2019, expressed the harm of misogynistic labels, and also showed the hope of discarding the labels. Ms. Tanya Kemal Darwesh, Director of Rasan, introduced 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...
