A conference held on 14th January in London by Roj Women’s Association, the International Free Women Foundation and the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq focused on stoning and execution in different parts of the world in particular Iran. A collective resolution was born out of it. Speakers raised their concern about gross violations of [...]
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“Stop Stoning and Execution” conference releases a collective resolution
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's right Iran, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Kurdish Activists: Women’s Abuse Under-Reported
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dashty (right) a Kurdish woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation at the age of 12. Source: Rudaw Nearly 4,000 cases of violence were recorded in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011 including 720 cases of systematic torture, the government reported last week, but women’s activists say the numbers are severely under-reported. The government registered 3,766 [...]
Iraqi voices: For women, freedoms under fire
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women, tagged US withdrawal Iraq, Yanar Mohammed on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photojournalist Kael Alford spent 10 months covering the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath in 2003-2004. She returned this summer to see what has and hasn’t changed as the U.S. prepared to withdraw its troops. Source: Photoblog When I first met Yanar Mohammed in 2003, she was holding a megaphone and leading a women’s [...]
Women violence on the increase in South Kurdistan
Posted in Gender violence, Honour crime victims, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against children, Violence against women, tagged Federal Region of Kurdistan, South Kurdistan on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Suspicious deaths, murders and suicides of women have run high in South Kurdistan, an absolute male dominant territory which doesn’t punish violence against women. Source: ANF The Committee for Struggle against Violence on Women has reported that 1,012 women have set themselves alight in the last three years in South Kurdistan where women live under [...]
Why do so many Iraqi Kurdish women kill themselves?
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hundreds of Iraqi women commit suicide every year, mainly by setting themselves on fire, according to an Iraqi human rights activist. Suaad al-Khazraji said in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah more than 80 suicides were reported in the first half of 2010. She said there were no exact figures on the number Iraqi women committing [...]
Campaign to end FGM in Iraqi-Kurdistan sees success
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, Kurdish women's rights Iraq on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Stop FGM in Kurdistan blog WADI recently did a survey on the rate of FGM in Garmyan region, where the whole campaign against this practice once started in 2004. Since then these teams are visiting dozens of villages, meet the people, show educational films and lobby against FGM. This campaign obviously pays out and is proving [...]
Iraq – Women Around the World Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Iraq
Posted in Kurdish women's rights Iraq on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Women Global Join to Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Iraq and Call for an End to Sexual Assault of Women Protesters Source: WUNRN We, feminist activists from 12 countries, stand in support of our sisters and brothers peacefully demonstrating for basic rights in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. This morning, June 10, demonstrators were brutally targeted with sexual [...]
Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan- Iraq
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, tagged Anfal survivors, Saddam Hussein on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
KSSO and Kurdish Association would like to cordially invite you to Kurdish Studies forthcoming book launch and seminar A book that examines Kurdish women’s experience of destruction, gassing, forced displacement, the disappearance of loved ones, and incarceration during the Anfal campaign. It explores the survival strategies of these women in the aftermath of genocide. By [...]
Iranian Kurdish Women Face Lonely Unmarried Life In Iraqi Kurdistan
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's right Iran, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, tagged Kawa Refugee Camp, Khatuzin Center, Kurdish citizenship, Refugee Council in Erbil on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kurdish women from Kawa Camp criticize women’s rights activists for overlooking their case and claim that the activists only deal with the issues of urban women and do not care about them. Women human rights activists from Khatuzin Center reject these claims. Source: Gorilla’s Guide By Burhan Aydin ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Eran Muhammad is a 25-year-old Kurdish [...]
Roj Women’s seminars on the intersection of patriarchy and militarism
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged patriarchy and militarism on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women’s Association is hosting a series of seminars in London that explore the intersection of patriarchy and militarism in Kurdish regions of the world. Watch now the video of our seminars on the occasion of International Women’s Day, on 8th March 2011. This series of educational seminars will come to a close in June, [...]
