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…
Women
The first women’s café in Iraq
On the upper floor of the Halabja Women Center WADI has opened a café in 2007. It is the first…
Supporting Girls Soccer Teams in Iraqi-Kurdistan and Syria
More and more girls in Kurdish Northern Iraq wish to play football. As unusual as it may seem at first…
Fighting Illiteracy
For northern Iraq, the Ba’athist rule of the country meant persecution, exile and war. Generations had grown up under these…
Women Centres
Focusing on long-term empowerment of women and the development of a democratic civil society in Iraq, WADI supports several independent…
“You Can’t Beat Me” Campaign: Football Clubs for Girls
In Halabja, Raniya, Kalar and Penjween, girls have opened their own football clubs. WADI supports the four new clubs, to…
Mobile Women-Led Aid Teams
Since 2003, WADI supports women-led mobile teams who operate in remote areas of the regions of Mosul, Arbil, Suleymaniyah, Halabja,…
MSNBC: Women’s center in Iraqi Kurdistan aids refugees
By MSNBC, 02.12.2015 Many Syrians fleeing their homeland seek refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan. Videographers Andrea DiCenzo and Jonathan Brown take…
Assistance for Women in Distress
In 1997, WADI began to plan the first shelter for women in northern Iraq, in close cooperation with all active…
