Welcome to KWRW (Kurdish Women's Rights Watch), an organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting women's rights in the
Kurdish community, whether in Kurdistan or in the diaspora. KWRW also incorporates KWAHK (Kurdish Women:
Action against Honour Killing), an honour-based violence campaign within the organisation.
We are a UK-based network, with members and supporters in many different countries.
This site provides information about our current activities and plans, and monitors news and other
items for material relevant to our campaigns. We hope you find it useful, and we welcome feedback and support.
Latest Artilces
Honour Killing Outcry
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18/02/2008 IWPR
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Activists call for legislative reforms to tackle honour killing and other forms of violence against women.
By Azeez Mahmood in Sulaimaniyah (ICR No. 246, 18-Feb-08)
Six years ago, Hataw fled to
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Honor Killings on Rise Worldwide
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05/02/2008 VOA - By Mandy Clark
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The United Nations reports that family members kill more than 5,000 women and girls around the world each year in so-called honor killings. It is the punishment often meted out to women suspected of u
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My family, my killers
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02/02/2008 Sunday Morning Herald
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The grainy video, taken on a mobile phone and played in a British court last year, shows a young woman lying on a bed, telling how her father had tried to kill her that day. She says he gave her some
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States Fuel ’Honour Killings’
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31/01/2008 IPS News - By Abderrahim El Ouali
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CASABLANCA, Jan 31 (IPS) - State-directed violence, the refusal to give up the death penalty and the holding of public executions are some of the principal factors that are supporting the continuing r
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An End to Female Genital Cutting?
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04/01/2008 Time Magazine - By Nicholas Birch
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Arbil - These are busy times for Pakhshan Zangana. Head of the women’s caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, she is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that is the first
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27 Iraqi Kurdish women die in ‘honour killings’
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26/11/2007 AFP
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ARBIL, Iraq - At least 27 women have died in so-called ‘honour killings’ over the past four months in northern Kurdish Iraq, an official from the regional government said Monday.
Aziz Mohammed, hum
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‘Honour’ killings grow as girl, 17, stoned to death
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04/11/2007 Sunday Times - By Hala Jaber
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Hala Jaber, Irbil, northern Iraq
As the sun went down and the sandstone tombs cast long shadows over the village cemetery, Badi’aa Aswad threw herself on the mud grave of her 17-year-old daughter,
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