This is a repost of a student blog from December 23, 2015, which is still very relvent and timely.
My name is Zhiwar Jawhar (Zhiwar Nazanin) and I am an undergraduate student in the IT degree program. This fall semester, I was a student in...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies, with generous funding from the European Union, created a podcast. The two-year EU grant focuses on gender equality and education development in the MENA region, so we interviewed some of the students in our gender studies minor.
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, gave a plenary talk for the first World Disability and Rehabilitation Virtual Conference, held on June 26 th , 2020, in Sri Lanka (via Zoom). The conference was sponsored by the World Disability and Rehabilitation Professional Association and The International Institute of...
Family Feminism and Feminist Futures are both collaborations between the University of Rostock and the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. In the summer of 2020, we asked students to write a paragraph about a role model, someone they know and admire, and a short piece of speculative fiction,...
On Saturday May 23rd, 2020, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, participated in the webinar “COVID-19 and its Impacts on the differently-abled community.” The webinar was sponsored and produced by WDRPA, the World Disability and Rehabilitation Professionals Association, with which CGDS partnered for the event.
Mr. Ramyar Ismail Jamal, CGDS Research Assistant for the project on Masculinities, funded by the UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), has been selected to participate in this year's TARII Research conference. The Academic Research Institute in Iraq, a consortium of American universities and museums,...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) launched our EU project in November 2018. One of the main goals of this project was to develop networks of scholars, staff, and administrators in order to advance gender studies in the KRG, Iraq, and the MENA region.
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“The continuous condemnations, intended to defame, exhaust, and silence us, happen when we are still alive. But we also know that, like so many before us, our critics may misinterpret our actions or write us out of history after we die.”...
On February 20th, 2020, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and CGDS EU M&E Advisor Mr. Rasti Ranj facilitated the Sexual Harassment Training workshop at Ashur Brick Company. As part of our EU grant, the workshop was delivered to a number of workers and administrative staff employed by the...
On February 27, 2019, CGDS Director, Dr. Choman Hardi and CGDS EU Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor Mr. Rasti Ranj facilitated “Gender Justice Training,” for female judges, members of the Public Defender's Office, as well as civil society organizations, lawyers, and parties to the implementation of the Domestic Violence...
