Women

Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Liesje Schreinemacher visited the Khanke camp on Friday (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg).

Kurdistan

Dutch Minister speaks to Yezidi women on last day of visit to Kurdistan

Head of KRG Media and Information Department Jotiar Adil (right) signs an MoU to raise awareness about GBV and support youth with Dr. Rita Columbia, UNFPA Iraq representative, in Erbil, Apr. 3, 2022. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

KRG, UNFPA to cooperate on raising awareness of GBV, cyber-bullying

Activists protests against honor killing. (Photo: AFP)

Kurdistan

30-year-old woman murdered in Zakho

Activists protests against honor killing. (Photo: AFP)

Kurdistan

US shares Kurdistan leaders' concerns about rise in 'honor killings'

The studio of Equality Radio on the first day of broadcasting, March 8, 2022. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region launches women's issues-focused Equality Radio

PM Masrour Barzani delivers speech for Internatoinal Women's Day in Erbil, March 8, 2022 (Photo:KRG)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani emphasizes importance of women's rights, combating GBV

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani delivers speech at Korean Village, Erbil, Nov. 7, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani to participate in event for International Women's Day

President Masoud Barzani during a press conference. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)

Kurdistan

KDP President Barzani praises Kurdistan’s women on International Women’s Day

Iraqi security forces in a prison complex in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

27 arrested in Iraq for blackmailing women

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (Right) and Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

'There is no honor in honor killing, this scourge must end': PM Barzani

Afghan women march for women's rights in Kabul on Jan. 16, 2022. (Photo: WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Middle East

Four missing Afghan women activists released

Safa al-Saeedi, 29, (R) and Dalal Abedlamir, 24, two of 180 women among the 5,000 employees of the Basrah Gas Company near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, speak to each other, on Jan. 20, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Iraq

Bottom of gender rankings, Iraqi women defy critics to work

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met female athletes on Wednesday (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region President receives award-winning female athletes

Luna Darwesh, 25, author of the Kurdish graphic novel Fatte released in early 2021. (Photo: Luna Darwesh/Facebook)

Kurdistan

Female authors break new ground with first Kurdish graphic novels

A demonstrator uses lipstick to cross out the mask of another protester as they attend a rally for International Women's Day in Iraq's southern city of Basra, March 8, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Iraq

Victims turned activists: Iraqi women battle abuse

Dr. Rita Columbia, the UNFPA representative to Iraq, speaks at the launch of Safe YOU application in Erbil, Dec. 16, 2021. (Photo: UNFPA/Twitter)

Kurdistan

KRG, UNFPA launch Safe YOU app for women facing gender-based violence