These Yazidi women escaped ISIS slavery — and are painting self-portraits to reclaim their dignity
By Kieran Corcoran, Business Insider UK, 09.09.2017 A 13-year-old Yazidi girl — Nisren — paints a self-portrait with…
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Iraqi Kurdistan makes headway in fighting corruption and FGM
Iraqi Kurdistan makes headway in fighting corruption and FGM – Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have not been paid in months, despite…
Wadi vows to expand work after being awarded Roland Berger Prize
Wadi vows to expand work after being awarded Roland Berger Prize published on: kirkuknow.com, 04.06.2017 The German NGO, Wadi, vows…
Female Circumcisions or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan
Female Circumcisions or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan published on: basnews.com, 04.06.2017, by Kazhan Mohammed Circumcision is defined as…
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…
Wadi awarded Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity
On the evening of May 4th, 2017, in a ceremony held at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Roland Berger…
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,…
