The Women’s Legal Assistance Organization (WOLA)
In spring 2008 WOLA (Women’s Legal Assistance) was founded. It monitors jurisdiction and law implementation and offers individual legal assistance. Initially…
In spring 2008 WOLA (Women’s Legal Assistance) was founded. It monitors jurisdiction and law implementation and offers individual legal assistance. Initially…
On the upper floor of the Halabja Women Center WADI has opened a café in 2007. It is the first…
More and more girls in Kurdish Northern Iraq wish to play football. As unusual as it may seem at first…
For northern Iraq, the Ba’athist rule of the country meant persecution, exile and war. Generations had grown up under these…
Focusing on long-term empowerment of women and the development of a democratic civil society in Iraq, WADI supports several independent…
In Halabja, Raniya, Kalar and Penjween, girls have opened their own football clubs. WADI supports the four new clubs, to…
Since 2003, WADI supports women-led mobile teams who operate in remote areas of the regions of Mosul, Arbil, Suleymaniyah, Halabja,…
By MSNBC, 02.12.2015 Many Syrians fleeing their homeland seek refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan. Videographers Andrea DiCenzo and Jonathan Brown take…
In 1997, WADI began to plan the first shelter for women in northern Iraq, in close cooperation with all active…