On October 19th 2021, CGDS announced the availability of new data on gendered representations in school textbooks in the Kurdish curriculum, with a comparison to the Iraq curriculum. The research includes public primary school curricula, from the first grade to the sixth grade. Mr. Mohaned Mahdi, who earned...
On October 18, 2021 , Dr. Choman presented “ Gender and D evelopment : C hallenges and O pportunities for W omen’s E mpowerment in Iraq ” at the Norwegian Refugee Council Panel Discussion (via Zoom). Other speakers included...
On 14 October, 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, participated in the Alternative Human Rights Expo, organized by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and more than 25 partners, and held online. The event featured the work of several international artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets, who are also...
On Wednesday evening, 29 September, 2021, Dr. Choman, CGDS founder and director, participated in an event and highlighted the importance of poetry as a tool for resistance, helping us to feel the sadness and outrage that are necessary to fight back. The event was in celebration of Banned...
CGDS is happy to announce the arrival of our second Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, Ms. Alina Jabbari. Ms. Alina is interdisciplinarily educated, having obtained a BA in law and MA in global criminology at Utrecht University and a second MA in...
CGDS is pleased to announce that Mr. Renwar Najm has completed the first part of his work toward an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is attending an international and interdisciplinary two-year program focusing on violent conflict, as well as its prevention and management. The program is...
On Wednesday, the 11 th of August 2021, the Center for Gender and Development Studies team conducted a focus group discussion (FGD) in Sulaimani at AUIS. This FGD was part of our gender-based violence research project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, funded by The United Nations Population...
On the 5 th of July 2021, the Center for Gender and Development Studies team conducted a focus group discussion (FGD) in Erbil. This was for our gender-based violence research project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, funded by The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The FGD was...
On August 3, 2021, CGDS visited the Blind Institute in Sulaimani. Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, and Ms. Kali Yaseen, CGDS Research Assistant, met with the incoming Director of the Blind Union, Mr. Omer Khider Omer....
After earning his PhD with the highest score from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, on June 29, 2021, Dr. Shakir (Muhammed Usman) has presented a conference paper and published four pieces of scholarship. Since arriving in Sulaimani as the first CGDS Jan Warner Visiting Scholar in October 2020,...
