Ranya and Qaladiza: A True Hell for Women and Girls
A report prepared by Wadi about the widespread violence and abuses of women and girls in Pishder Region in Iraqi…
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Social and Legal awareness seminars in Prisons
Since the mid-nineties Wadi has helped to improve the situation of prisoners in Iraqi-Kurdistan. We have supported workshops, libraries and…
Six year old Girl died in Iraqi-Kurdistan after being mutilated
Athough Female Genital Mutilation is banned by law in Iraqi-Kurdistan since 2011 and numbers of newly mutilated girls are dropping…
Silence and Exploitation; Female Labor in Kurdish Villages
Women in Kurdish villages have to work hard. They don’t do that out of free will, but because they are…
Psychosexual Complications of Female Genital Mutilation for Couples: A Comparative Study in Iran
By Osman Mahmoudi and Elham Hosseini, 29.04.2017 Despite some successes in ending FGM among Kurdish people in Iran the…
Wadi will receive the Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity
Wadi is honored to announce that we are one of the three recipients of the Roland Berger Award for Human…
Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM: Progress in Asia
Press release by WADI / Stop FGM Middle East & Asia, 06.02.2017 February 6th 2017. On the seventh official International…
Female genital mutilation falls sharply in northern Iraq – survey
45 percent of women had undergone FGM compared to less than 11 percent of their daughters By Emma Batha, Thomson…
Deutsche Welle: Changing minds about genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan
High rates of female genital mutilation set Iraqi Kurdistan apart from the rest of the country. More than the men,…
Halabja Day 2016: End the impunity
On the anniversary of the 1988 poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja: A report documenting 161…
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