On July 30th, 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and EU Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, Mr. Rasti Ranj, met with the Iraqi Women’s Network in Baghdad as part of our EU project outreach. The main purposes of the meeting were...
On October 23rd, 2018, the CGDS team traveled to Erbil to meet with His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Yusif Goran. Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, and Mr. Shko Shwan, EU Project Manager, discussed a variety of...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies participated in Europe Day on Sunday, June 16, in Baghdad. The European Union awarded CGDS a substantial grant for gender education development in the MENA region in October 2019. Dr. Choman, the founding director of CGDS, summarized our accomplishments in the...
CGDS, as part of its Women’s Voices project with Internews, held four Roundtable discussions in the cities of Rania, Qalat Dizah, Haji Awa, and Sulaymani on the 12th of December, 2019 and the 21st and 22nd of January, 2020. They were led by Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of...
Dr. Choman Hardi, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, had an interview with Radio New Zealand which was broadcast on Anfal Commemoration Day, April 14th. In the interview she talks about AUIS, about teaching gender studies, writing poetry, researching about genocide survivors, and a bit of Kurdish/ Iraqi politics.
In order to work together to implement the August 2018 ministerial decree to implement gender education in institutions of higher education throughout the KRG, CGDS traveled to Erbil on Sunday, October 13 th , 2019. Present at this planning meeting were Ms . Amal Jalal, Director General of the...
Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of the Center for Gender and Development Studies and Assistant Professor (English) and Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director and Professor (Social Sciences) traveled to Cairo, 8-12 November 2018, to meet colleagues in Gender Studies as part of their project-planning for the recently awarded EU...
On Monday September 2 nd , 2019, CGDS met with two representatives of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Mr. Lionel Laforgue, the GBV Coordinator in the Humanitarian Programme, and Ms. Azhee Amin, UNFPA’s Gender Programme Analyst, spoke with the CGDS team about working together to promote applied gender...
CGDS, in cooperation with AUIS and the EU, held its 2019 Women’s Week event with a number of activities for both the AUIS community and outside.
This year, CGDS kicked off its Women’s Week with a visit to Soz Women’s Mental Health Hospital...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) announced today the...
