‘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…
Since 2004 Wadi has been operating a number of teams to raise awareness against FGM in different regions of Iraqi…
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 Sulaymaniyah, 14.8.2018 After a decade and a half of work on combating female genital mutilation…
Until recently the ‘backward tradition’ was common in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By Florian Neu, The Nation, April 26…
Although FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan is declining it’s still practised It was the region of Garmyan in Iraqi-Kurdistan where teams…
This summer a team of the famous “Red Line”-program of the Kurdish satellite channel NRT joined Wadi in Garmyan region…
Athough Female Genital Mutilation is banned by law in Iraqi-Kurdistan since 2011 and numbers of newly mutilated girls are dropping…
Since 2004 Wadi has been operating a number of teams to raise awareness against FGM in different regions of Iraqi…
Iraqi women are subject to a strict moral code that dominates their patriarchal society. Most of these rules of social…
Seven villages in Kurdish nothern Iraq made the start. In most of them the mutilation rate was almost 100%. After…