Ms. Goshan Mohammed, Lecturer in Math and Sciences at AUIS and CGDS veteran, participated in the IFMSA Conference at the University of Sulaymaniyah’s Old Campus. The conference was facilitated by the Kurdistan branch of IFMSA, the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations. The conference focused on raising awareness on...
As a part of the national campaign for 16 Days of Activism to Combat Violence Against Women, on Tuesday, 26 th Nov. 2019, University of Raparin organized a symposium entitled “Women’s Involvement and Limitations of their Authority in the Public Sector.”
Ms. Banah Fateh, the Director of...
On Sunday, December 1st 2019, Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of CGDS, conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop for 21 female participants from Suliamani, Halabja, Erbil and Duhok. The training was a part of a 6 day training manual titled “Women Can Do it”. It was arranged by People‘s...
On October 29th, 2019 Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS’s founder and director, read some of her poetry, spoke about gender inequality in the Middle East, and highlighted CGDS’s activities, goals, and needs to an audience of about 50 people in New York. The dinner, which was entitled “On Storytelling for...
On Tuesday, October 29th, 2019, representatives from The Migrant Project visited CGDS. Mr. Hawar Anwar Ali, the Project Coordinator, and Ms. Nasik Kadir, the local migrant expert, explained the aims and goals of their NGO to Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, and Mr. Shko Shwan, EU Project manager....
On October 21st, 2019, CGDS team members Dr. Choman Hardi, Sewe Kader, Shko Shwan, and Hawar Jamal, had a meeting with Mouna Ghanem, Priscilla Megalaa, Nora Rathje, Ilkka Uusitalo, and Ayham Azzam from the Berghof Foundation. The Berghof Foundation is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is based in...
Dr. Choman Hardi, Dr. Lynn Rose, and Mr. Miran Fattah visited Mr. Jamal Hussain, Director General in the Ministry of Culture, in his Erbil offices, on Sunday, October 13 th , 2019. Along with exchanging basic updates about each other’s work, we discussed progress with the August 2018 decree,...
On Sunday, October 13 th , a CGDS Team traveled to Erbil to meet with representatives of MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization. The MADRE team consisted of three lawyers, members from the organization’s Legal Advocacy arm. J.M. Kirby and Lisa Davis were visiting from New York; a...
On September 30, 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and EU Project Manager Mr. Shko Shwan met with the new Head of Office, Ms. Ashley Durec, and First Secretary, Embassy of Canada, Mr. Tariq Gordon. The purpose of the meeting was to share a wider perspective on gender issues...
Ms. Goshan Karadaghi, Lecturer at AUIS and CGDS veteran, participated in the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations-Kurdistan’s (IFMSA-Kurdistan) three-day workshop as a trainer. The workshop was held in Duhok from the 27th to the 30th of August, 2019,Ms. Goshan gave a series of three different presentations to medical...
