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Open Democracy: Embracing shame: turning honour on its head

14 February 2014. The challenge that embracing shame poses to the longstanding perversion of honour, is the struggle for women’s human rights –  the realisation of which will result in the entire community’s advancement and healing. by Heidi Basch-Harod The social construct and custom of honour maintains order for many societies in the middle east […]

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Cleric supports Battle against Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan

February 10, 2014 SULÊMANÎ, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,—  For many years, people have believed that practicing of female genital mutilation (FGM) is required by Islamic religion, and that is why the majority of people, especially in towns and villages in KRG provinces, adhere to the practice. However, a well-known Kurdish Islamic scholar recently issued a Fatwa […]

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Feb 6th: Many media reports on our work and FGM in Asia

7.2.2014. by Stop FGM Middle East On February 6th, the eleventh international Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, a number of media outlets have picked up on the topic of Female Genital Mutilation in Asia. Many non-governmental und international organizations tackling FGM, including the World Health Organization, still don’t mention the existence of […]

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Iraqi Kurdistan fights female circumcision

Deutsche Welle. 9.12.2013. Female circumcision is slowly declining in Iraqi Kurdistan. Years of campaigning and a law against the practise have borne fruit. Some villages went from 100 percent of all young girls being circumcised to none. “Circumcision brought us problems. It is much better for husband and wife when it is not happening.” The […]

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IRAQI KURDISTAN: WADI shifts attitudes toward Female Genital Mutilation

Christian Peacemakers, 4.11.2013. by Rosemarie Milazzo Falah Muradkhan addresses the media On 30 October 2013, CPT’s partner organization, WADI Iraq office, organized a press conference—which media representatives from six major Kurdish satellite channels and several newspapers attended —about the decline in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan.  The WADI project coordinator, Falah Muradkhan said his […]

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How Kurdistan ended female genital mutilation

Gulf News 24.10.13. By Shaimaa Khalil Toutkhal: Kurdistan is one of Iraq’s rare success stories; autonomous from Baghdad since 1991, the region has recently enjoyed an oil boom that’s fuelled foreign investment unknown elsewhere in the country. And recently Iraqi Kurdistan has been looking closely at its human rights record. Two years ago Female Genital […]

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