New Study: Almost 100 percent women mutilated in region of Oman – Time to act!
The newest survey on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Oman bears shocking results: 95,5 percent of women reported to be…
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Statement of Wadi in Iraq
Statement of Wadi in Iraq Sulaymaniyah, 14.8.2018 After a decade and a half of work on combating female genital mutilation…
Iraqi Kurdish activists stamping out female genital mutilation
Until recently the ‘backward tradition’ was common in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By Florian Neu, The Nation, April 26…
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Iraqi-Kurdistan: Still an unresolved problem
Although FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan is declining it’s still practised It was the region of Garmyan in Iraqi-Kurdistan where teams…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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