‘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…
Stop FGM Kurdistan
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…
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…
FGM-Free Communites Programme
Seven villages in Kurdish nothern Iraq made the start. In most of them the mutilation rate was almost 100%. After…
