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...
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...
A delegation from the Consulate General of the United States in Erbil visited the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) on December 15, 2015. The delegation was headed by the Consul General in Erbil, Matthias Mitman, who was accompanied by Public Affairs Officer Anthony Deaton, Political...
Choman Hardi, AUIS professor, poet, and researcher in gender and violence studies, was invited to facilitate a series of workshops on gender and the media at Nalia News Television (NRT) headquarters. As part of NRT’s career development, over 200 staff members and journalists were encouraged to...
On April 29, 2019, CGDS, as part of the Gender Balance Group of the 9th Cabinet, met with the Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament, Dr. Vala Fareed, held a Press Conference, and met with the High Council of Women's Affairs, requesting support to...
Dr. Lynn Rose, Professor in the Social Sciences, and Mr. Shko Shwan, CGDS Project Coordinator, as representatives of the Center for Gender and Development Studies at AUIS, attended the workshop “Call to Action on Protection from GBV in Emergencies,” sponsored by ECHO (European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid...
On Monday, April 29th, 2019, The Center for Gender and Development Studies presented a workshop, “The Gender Dimension: Feminist Scholarship” to about 20 students and staff at the University of Kufa in Najaf, Iraq. Dr. Alaa Hussain Al-Rihimi, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, expressed interest in collaborating with CGDS...
