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Kurdistan

At the end of the First Gulf War, the Allies established a safe haven in northern Iraq. Amid the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from three northern provinces, Iraqi Kurdistan emerged in 1992 as an autonomous entity inside Iraq with its own local government and parliament. The new Iraqi constitution stipulates that Iraqi Kurdistan is a federal entity recognized by Iraq and the United Nations.

  • Kurdistan has not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  • Kurdistan does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
  • Kurdistan does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate

Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM

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  • February 13, 2012 (Rudaw)
    KURDISTAN: Women Activists Condemn Tribal Settlement of Murder Cases In 1990, a man accused his wife, the mother of three children, of having an affair and killed her. His in-laws didn't file any charges against him in court. Instead, they said the death of their daughter was an accident. The man remarried and had two more children.
  • February 9, 2012 (Roj Women)
    KURDISTAN: Solidarity to support women human rights defenders in Turkish Kurdistan In March 2011 four researchers representing a London-based women's association, Roj Women, travelled to South East Turkey in order to interview women human rights defenders.
  • February 4, 2012 (The Kurdish Globe)
    KURDISTAN: Kurdish Women Seek More Participation in Government A group of women's organizations in Kurdistan Region have submitted a proposal for Kurdistan's next Prime Minister to reevaluate the role of women in governmental institutions and take their presence into consideration. They asked government officials to provide them with access to high positions in the next cabinet.
  • January 30, 2012 (Rudaw)
    KURDISTAN: Kurdish Women Press for More Power Women's rights activists in the Kurdistan region are demanding greater representation in the new Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) cabinet, saying despite a quota that sets aside 25 percent of parliamentary seats for women, female leaders do not have enough power.
  • January 29, 2012 (Today's Zaman)
    KURDISTAN: Women Join Terrorist PKK for Many Reasons, Mainly Seeking Freedom Alkan's book, “PKK'da Semboller, Aktörler, Kadınlar” (Actors, Symbols and Women in the PKK), shows how hundreds of women have found themselves among the terrorist organization's militia in the mountains of Turkey's Southeast, on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Iran.

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Amnesty International

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Security Council Resolution 1325 Translations


 

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