FGM: A native affliction on every inhabitable continent
FGM is not tied to a specific race or religion. It is a tragic side product of the universal fear…
Analysis
Fatima’s Story: The fate of a girl who suffered under an early marriage
As an infant Fatima was ‘promised in marriage’ by her father to her cousin- a man 30 years her elder….
Football Team Breaks Religious & National Boundaries
With the support of Wadi, a unique soccer team has come together in Erbil. The team is made up of…
Women and Health: Why Doctors are urgently needed in Kurdish Villages
By Kurdstan Rasul, Wadi-Arbil, 10.08.2017 Many nights my tired body clashes with my busy mind as I think of the…
Kurdish Satellite Channel reports about FGM
This summer a team of the famous “Red Line”-program of the Kurdish satellite channel NRT joined Wadi in Garmyan region…
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…
FGM: Slow progress when talking to the UN about numbers
By Stop FGM Middle East; 20.02.2016 UNICEF just came out with new numbers on FGM. Instead of 140 million, the…
“There is no real interest in defeating the Islamic State”
Today, there is not much hope of transforming Syria, we only have a choice between bad and worse. Thomas von…
