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By Sofia Barbarani: ‘A veil does not protect a woman’s chastity. An education does’ – Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Iraqi poet (1863-1936) December marks the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Kurdish Women’s Union: a reminder of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) successes, as well as a blaring wake-up call. Women’s issues in the Kurdistan Region…
News from KT: The General Directorate of Trace (Warven), a non-governmental organisation for the defence of women’s rights, has issued a statement telling the people of Kurdistan that, in its first 100 days, the new Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinet has failed to introduce any new measures to tackle the problem of violence against women….
By Tara Fatehi: The history of Kurdish women has sadly been an invisible one — not because people don’t want to know about Kurdish women, but because they don’t know where to learn about them. It’s hard to know about women from an ethnic background when their history has not been fully documented. Consequently, many precious…
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: Press Release Professor Mary Davis, academic, trade unionist and elected member of the TUC women’s committee, will be travelling to southeast Turkey as part of an international solidarity delegation this Friday. The delegation is organised by CENI – Women’s Office for Peace and supported by the London-based Peace in Kurdistan Campaign,…
By Ashna Shareff: A female village dweller. She is a little girl, in the body of a woman. When I was a child, I had a very broad imagination. I had big dreams and ambitions. I remember I used to stand in the center of the road and open my arms wide to tell my…
On Thursday, June 21, 2012, a petition that calls for full implementation of Law No. 8: the Law Against Domestic Violence in Kurdistan will be presented to the Parliament spokesperson of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil. The Campaign for Lobbying for the Implementation of Law No. 8: the Law Against Domestic Violence in Kurdistan will present the…
By Heidi Diedrich, WADI*: Sulaimani, Iraq – In a call to honor the spirit of Law No. 8: the Law Against Domestic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG), more than 50 people gathered in Sulaimani, Iraq on Tuesday, May 8 to discuss a serious plan for the law’s implementation. According to event organizers,…
News and Comment by The Kurdistan Tribune: A teenage Kurdish girl living in Sweden was murdered by her relatives last week, on 24th April, in a so-called honour killing. 19 year old Maria Baroy from Landskrona in southern Sweden, had chosen to have a relationship with someone who had not been selected for her by…
News and Comment by The Kurdistan Tribune: A young woman in Garmyan, in the Sulaymani region of south Kurdistan, set fire to her accommodation and threatened to burn herself to death yesterday (10th March). She’d had enough of living in abject poverty – made much worse when she was recently abandoned by a second husband…
By Mufid Abdulla: Last week Abtihal Alzidi, the Iraqi minister for women’s affairs in Nuri Al Maliki’s government, told a local news agency that she does not believe in equality between women and men in Iraq. ”I am against the equality between men and woman”, she said. “If women are equal to men they are…
By Ashna Shareff: They want me to believe that everything in my life is about them, and nothing is about I. Imagine how it feels to be surrounded by many, yet to be secluded and lonely. Imagine how it feels to be silent, when a voice in your heart shouts a hundred words, yet still…
Date: Saturday 14 January, 2012 Time: 11am – 5pm Venue: Amnesty International UK, Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA. Nearest tube station: Old Street (on the Northern Line) The aim of this conference is to raise awareness on this vital topic and to bring attention to laws and legislations in countries practising stoning and the death…
By Solin Hacador: Ferda Cemiloğlu (54) is a Kurdish entrepreneur who comes from the capital city of Kurdistan, Amed (Diyarbakir). She is from one of the noble families of Amed. Her grandfather governed Yemen for about 16 years. She is referred as a Kurdish princess. She owns a construction company in Erbil, Kurdistan. In a male-dominated…
By Ava Homa: “It’s true that Kurds have a painful history,” said the Honourable Leyla Zana, “But I do believe it is much better to have a difficult yet dignified past rather than a violent and oppressive one. We won’t bring shame to our predecessors. Our enemies will.” That was a moment when the participants…
By Ava Homa, rabble.ca: The Peshmarga (those who face death) is a large group of Kurdish guerrillas who live in the mountains of Kurdistan, fighting the occupiers. Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland, are mainly divided between four countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria and have faced genocide. In…
