Voices from the Margins: Citizen-Led Health Accountability in Kurdistan
By: Goran Zangana, Shokh Mohammad, Baxan Jamal, Azadeen M. Amin, Isis Elgibali, and Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025….
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One Country, different legal systems; Ja’fari Personal Status Law can shake Iraq`s legal framework?
An in dept analysis of the impact of the so called Ja’fari Law legalizing child marriages in Iraq. By Ahang…
New law legalizing child marriage meets with resistance in Iraq
A new law has come into force in Iraq that legalizes child marriage according to the Shiite Ja’fari school of…
Escaping Patriarchal Control – The Fight for Reproductive Health in Northern Iraq
How do you combat the practice of female genital mutilation? Wadi has been conducting community-based projects for many years to…
Conference: Pessimism Surrounding Cause of Ezidis
A report from Kirkuk Now about the conference “Eleven Years after the Genocide: Addressing the Yazidi Situation” Wadi organized in…
Miserable Life Awaits Deported Ezidis as Germany Sends Iraqi Asylum Seekers Home
By Ammar Aziz, Kirkuk Now, 19.05.2025 Yazidi woman, Picture: Basma Aldakhi, Wadi e. V. Rayan Fares is living in a…
Yazidi Camps: Displaced Have no Adequate Access to Public Health Services
After severe cuts in US-Aid the situation inside the IDP-Camps for Yazidis in Iraq has severely deteriorated. By Ammar Aziz,…
Syria after the fall of Assad: Towards a New Middle East?
Talk by Thomas von der Osten-Sacken in Amsterdam on December 16th about the developments in Syria and it’s impacts on…
Male Engagement against FGM: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
It is very important to include men into camapaigns to end FGM. Some lessons from past experiences of our STOP…
Interview: ‘Secrecy leads to the continuation of FGC in families and communities’
An Interview Sahiyo conducted about the anti-FGM Campaign of Wadi. By Megan Seaver, Sayiho Blog, 03.02.2024 Bakhan is an activist…
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