“FGM is not the only Reason for Polygamy ….”
Activists from the field speak about their work tackling Female Genital Mutilation and other forms of violence in Iraqi-Kurdistan (Picture:…
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Activists in the Kurdistan Region continue the fight to eradicate FGM
Activists in the Kurdistan Region continue the fight to eradicate FGM By Karzan Sulaivany, kurdistan24.net, 06.02.2019 ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) –…
Day of Zero Tolerance: Iraqi Kurdistan Government pledges to eliminate FGM
In Iraq Kurdistan this years Day of Zero Tolerance towards Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Febuary 6th, can be celebrated true…
‘Belittled and Degraded’; An interview on FGM with the Wadi Team in Erbil
Since 2004 Wadi has been operating a number of teams to raise awareness against FGM in different regions of Iraqi…
Wadi talks on Deutsche Welle about FGM
The German women’s rights organization Terre des Femmes just came out with new figures about female genital mutilation (FGM): More…
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…
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…
