The clinic was built by a strange sect. Now the Health Minister said that “medical organisations should be focused on saving lives and not advertising their religion in an attempt to convert vulnerable people”.
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Burkina Faso’s FGM clinic stands idle
17/03/2014Guardian and BBC Film about FGM in Kurdistan and the campaign against it
24/10/2013Today Guardian Films present a short version of a co-production with the BBC about the decade long fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iraqi-Kurdistan. The BBC-Guardian team has followed two filmmakers who spend almost a decade reporting the greatest taboo subject in Kurdish society. Nabaz Ahmed and Shara Amin persuaded people to talk about the effects of FGM. Their film became an important tool in a capmpaign the grassroots organisation WADI launched to combat FGM and get the practice outlawed in 2011. Latest figures by WADI show that in some regions Of Iraqi-Kurdistan the number of girls being mutilated has fallen by over 60% in the last few years.
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Film by Nabaz Ahmed, Shara Amin, Patrick Farrelly, Sinead Kinnane, Jordan Montminy, Maggie O’Kane and Alex Rees
- Length: 17min 06sec
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Two C’s I don’t really like to hear…
29/07/2013when it comes to the issue of FGM – it’s ‘community’ and ‘culture’.
Many discussions about FGM are just full of empty talk. But listen to this one, it is a bit different.
Iraq: New research highlights link between FGM/C and mental disorders
13/01/2012New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research has confirmed: Girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are more prone to mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Results of the research – conducted by Jan Ilhan Kizilhan of the University of Freiburg, an expert in psychotraumatology (psychotherapy for people who have suffered extreme trauma) – were published in the April-June 2011 edition of the European Journal of Psychiatry.
Kizilhan found “alarmingly high rates” of PTSD (44 percent), depression (34 percent), anxiety (46 percent) and somatic disturbances (mental disorders whose symptoms are unexplainable physical illnesses – 37 percent) among a group of 79 circumcised girls in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, aged 8-14, who did not otherwise suffer any traumatic events.
Neither poor nor mad
14/11/2010The New York Times issued an extensive article on female self-immolations which occur mainly in Iran and Afghanistan. Good to spread this awful truth – but then I read “Poverty is one reason”. Wait a minute. Poverty? Reason for what? Setting yourself on fire? Are you crazy?!
Then I read: “Iran shares in the culture of suicide by burning.” Culture??? Are you crazy?! Women are oppressed and humilated and beaten till they see death (a death as violent as their life) as their last resort and you call this a “culture”?
And what is about “mental illness often goes undiagnosed or untreated”? That is true, but what is the point concerning self-immolations? There might be cases of disturbed women seeking death through setting themselves alight, but is self-immolation a result of mental illness? Far from it.
Self-immolations occur as a result of the extremely patriarchal, brutal and violent nature of traditional societies. They occur in societies where women have no freedom and no rights whatsoever, where women have no voice, where women are treated worse than cattle, abused, dishonored and disgraced. Not because they are poor or mad.
Women abuses in Kurdistan
31/07/2010The Kurdish Globe about a report documenting the various forms of violence against women in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
گرنگیدانی گۆڤاری وارڤین به خهتهنهکردنی ئافرهتان
30/09/2009دوو بابهتی زۆر سهرنجڕاکێش لهسهر خهتهنهکردنی ئافرهتان له کوردستاندا له ئهم ژمارهییه گۆڤاری وارڤین بخۆێنهوه
سهردان
27/09/2009بؤ رِاطةياندن
سةرداني طروثي رِوبةرِوبونةوةي خةتةنةكردني ميَينة لة كوردستاني ئيَران بؤ شاري سليَماني و هةوليَر لة بةرواري 26- 30 / 9- 2009
بةمةبةستي ئالَوطؤرِكردني شارةزايي و بيرورِا سةبارةت بة خةتةنةكردني ميَينةو باسكردني ميكانيزمةكاني رِوبةرِوبونةوةي ئةم دياردةية لة كوردوستاندا ، طروثيَكي خؤبةخش لة كوردستاني ئيَران بة ميوانداري رِيَكخراوي wadi ئةلَماني سةرداني شاري سليَماني و هةوليَر دةكةن كة ثيَك ديَن لةم بةرِيَزانةي خوارةوة :
1. پخشان – مهاباد
2. آوات – سقز
3. فاطمه- روانسر
4. ژینا – سنندج
5. بهاره – سنندج
6. پروین – مریوان
7. كاميل ئةحمةدي ” رِيَكخةري طروث “
شايةني باسة لة كوردوستاني ئيَرانيش كيَشةي خةتةنةكردني ميَينة بةهةمان ئاستي كوردوستاني عيَراق بلاَوة و لةطةلَ بةرثاكردني هةلَمةتي ” خةتةنةكردني ميَينة بوةستيَنن لة كوردوستان ” لةلايةن رِيَكخراوي wadi ، ئةم بةرِيَزانةش لةلايةن خؤيانةوة هةلَمةتيَكي هاوشيَوةيان رِاطةياندوة و سةرجةم كارةكانيان بةشيَوةيكي خؤبةخشانةية .
ئةم طروثة زؤر خؤشحالَن بة هةر ديدارو طفتوطؤيةك لةطةلَ رِيَكخراوةكان و دةزطاكاني رِاطةياندندا ، بؤ زانياري زياتر و سازداني ديدار ضاوثيَكةوتن لةطةلَ ئةم طروثة تكاية ثةيوةندي بكةن بة بةرِيَز كاميل ئةحمةدي : تةلةفؤن : 0770199698 ، ئيمةيلَ : kameel14@hotmail.com
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تۆژینهوهیهک دهریخستووه که ڕێژهی خهتنهکردنی ئافرهتان له کوردستاندا بهرزه!!!/ آرڤید ڤۆرمان
25/09/2009ئهو تۆژینهوه گهوهرهیهی که له کوردستاندا له سهر خهتهنکردنی ئافرهتان ئهنجامی ئهدهین، گهیشتووهته قۆناغی کۆتایی. له حاڵی حازردا ئێمه له پرۆسهی ههڵسهنگاندنین له تۆژینهوهکهدا. لهم تۆژینهوهدا، ئێمه سهرکهوتووبوین له به دهستهێنانی ئهنجامگهلێکی زۆر گرنگ لهوانه؛ ڕێژهی خهتنهکردنی ئافرهتان له کوردستاندا.
ڕێژهی خهتهنهکردنی ئافرهتان له کوردستاندا زیاتره لهوهی که پێش تۆێژینهوهکه پێشبینیکرابوو: 72% ئافرهتان له ناوچهکانی ههولێر و سلێمانی و گهرمیان (کهرکوک) خهتنهکراون. ئێمه ئهو ڕێژهیهی له ناوچهی دهۆک به دهستهاتووه له توژینهوهکه نهژمارد به هۆی ئهو گیروگرفتهی که له شێوازی کۆکردنهوهی داتاکان هاتنه پێشمان و له بهر ئهوهی ئهو ئهنجامانی که له داتاکانهوه بۆمان دهرکهوتووه جێگای متمانه نین. بۆ نموونه به پێی ئهو داتایانه تهنها ڕێژهی 4% ئافرهتانی دهۆک خهتنه کراون، که ڕهنگه ڕاست بێت یا ههڵه، بهڵام ناتوانین ئهو ڕێژهیه بسڵمێنین.
له پارێزگای ههولێر، ڕێژهی ئافرهتانی خهتنهکراو که گهیشتووهته (63%) به بهراوهرد له گهڵ شوێنهکانی تر کهمتره. بهڵام له سلێمانی گهیشتووهته (77.9%) و له گهرمیانیش ( 81.2%). له حاڵی حازردا، به پێی توێژینهوهکهی ئێمه، ئافرهتان زیاتر ئهگهری قووتار بوون له مهترسی خهتهنهکردنیان ههیه به بهراوهرد له گهڵ چهند دهیهیهک پێش ئێستا. ڕێژهی خهتنهکردن له نێوان ئهو کچانهی که تهمهنیان له 20 کهمتره ئهگاته (57%)، بهڵام ڕێژهکه بۆ ئهوانهی که تهمهنیان له نێوان 50-59 ساڵه ئهگاته نزیکهی (85%). له ناوچهی ههولێر، تهنانهت له نێوان ئهو ئافرهتانهی که تهمهنیان سهرو 80 ساڵه، ڕێژهی خهتنهکردن نزیکهی (80%)، بهڵام ئهو ڕێژهیه له نێوان ئافرهتانی گهرمیان که له سهروی 60 ساڵن ئهگاته (100%)؛ واته ههموویان خهتنهکراون. ل
ه ناوچهکانی سلێمانی و گهرمیان، کهمبوونهوهیهکی زهق بهدیئهکرێت له ژمارهی ئهو کچانهی که له 20 ساڵی گهنجترن و خهتنهکراون بۆ ڕێژهی (20%). ئهمه نیشانهیهکی دڵخۆشکهر و پۆزیتیڤه. ئهم نێشانهیه پێئهچێت له ههولێر زووتر دهستی پێکردبێت. له حاڵی حازردا، به پێی ئهم ڕێژانه، پێئهچێت ڕێژهی خهتنهکردن له ناوچهی ههولێر دیسان بهرهو بهرزبوونهوه بڕوات.
Welcome
05/09/2009Soon you will find the blog of the Stop FGM Kurdistan campaign here.