Towards the elimination of FGM in Kurdish Northern Iraq
Since 2004 Wadi has been operating a number of teams to raise awareness against FGM in different regions of Iraqi…
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The first women’s café in Iraq
On the upper floor of the Halabja Women Center WADI has opened a café in 2007. It is the first…
The Campaign against Female Genital Mutilation
Iraqi women are subject to a strict moral code that dominates their patriarchal society. Most of these rules of social…
FGM-Free Communites Programme
Seven villages in Kurdish nothern Iraq made the start. In most of them the mutilation rate was almost 100%. After…
Supporting Girls Soccer Teams in Iraqi-Kurdistan and Syria
More and more girls in Kurdish Northern Iraq wish to play football. As unusual as it may seem at first…
Fighting Illiteracy
For northern Iraq, the Ba’athist rule of the country meant persecution, exile and war. Generations had grown up under these…
Women Centres
Focusing on long-term empowerment of women and the development of a democratic civil society in Iraq, WADI supports several independent…
“You Can’t Beat Me” Campaign: Football Clubs for Girls
In Halabja, Raniya, Kalar and Penjween, girls have opened their own football clubs. WADI supports the four new clubs, to…
Mobile Women-Led Aid Teams
Since 2003, WADI supports women-led mobile teams who operate in remote areas of the regions of Mosul, Arbil, Suleymaniyah, Halabja,…
How to Help the Women and Girls Rescued from Islamic State
How to Help the Women and Girls Rescued from Islamic State By Leanne K. Simpson, Newsweek.com, 24.02.2016 Violence against women,…
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