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Mar 25 2015
Women Confronting ISIS: Local Strategies and States’ Responsibilities (Video)
Symposium at City University of New York- School of Law Friday, March 6, 2015 This Symposium offers a unique and timely opportunity to engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists working across sectarian lines, as well as international experts to address the crisis of women’s human rights in areas controlled by the Islamic State of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/activities/women-confronting-isis/
Feb 21 2015
Women Confronting ISIS: Local Strategies and States’ Responsibilities
Friday, March 6, 2015 | 9:00am – 5:00pm Dave Fields Auditorium CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square Long Island City, NY 11101 This Symposium offers a unique and timely opportunity to engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists working across sectarian lines, as well as international experts to address the crisis of women’s …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/activities/women-confronting-isis-local-strategies-and-states-responsibilities/
Feb 21 2015
You’re Invited: “My Body Is Not Your Battlefield”
EVENT: Women Confronting ISIS: Local Strategies & States’ Responsibilities Engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists and international experts addressing the crisis of women’s human rights under the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Friday, March 6, 2015 | 9:00am – 5:00pm (FREE Entry) CUNY School of Law | 2 Court Square …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/activities/youre-invited-my-body-is-not-your-battlefield/
Feb 18 2015
Under Isis, Iraqi women again face an old nightmare: violence and repression
In a PBS NewsHour video report in June, Isis extremist militants parade through Mosul, Iraq, one of the first cities to fall to their onslaught in early June. The armed men are hanging off the back of trucks, as the crowd films them. One fighter leans out a car window, wagging his finger. The footage …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/under-isis-iraqi-women-again-face-an-old-nightmare-violence-and-repression/
Feb 18 2015
What will it take to stop Isis using rape as a weapon of war?
Noor (not her real name), a 14-year-old girl from a small village in northern Iraq, was sold 15 times, passed from one Islamic State (Isis) fighter to the next. Each time, she was raped. Noor managed to escape and made her way, mostly on foot, to a refugee camp. There, she met Yanar Mohammed, an …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/what-will-it-take-to-stop-isis-using-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/
Feb 05 2015
World Woman Festival 2015: Women in countries such as Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan ‘worst hit’ by fundamentalism
Women are the greatest victims of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the extent of the violence being inflicted upon them can no longer be ignored, an international panel of human rights campaigners has said. In a debate about jihadis, campaigners at the World Woman Festival in Oslo said that in countries such as Iraq, …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/world-woman-festival-2015-women-in-countries-such-as-iraq-syria-and-afghanistan-worst-hit-by-fundamentalism/
Jan 02 2015
We all know about jihadists, but what about those waging an ‘anti-jihad’?
As the UN Security Council tackles the entity claiming to be “Islamic State,” and President Barack Obama invokes global Muslim responsibility, many ask whether people of Muslim heritage do enough to counter extremism. The fact is, away from the media spotlight, thousands wage daily battles in their own countries against what President Obama called a …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/we-all-know-about-jihadists-but-what-about-those-waging-an-anti-jihad/
Dec 11 2014
OWFI statement for the 14 day to end VAW
Liberate the Iraqi Women Detained by Daesh, On June 10, the occupation of the city of Mosul started a new chapter of women’s suffering in Iraq. Daesh (ISIS) reawakened the ancient tribal habits of claiming women as spoils of war. While most of the detained thousands of women were from religious minorities such as Yezidies, …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/campaigns/owfi-statement-for-the-14-day-to-end-vaw/
Nov 02 2014
International Campaign Warns: No Women, No Peace in Iraq
(Ottawa—October 27, 2014). As world powers deploy military missions to fight ISIL*, the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict is urging them to prioritize ending widespread sexual violence by ISIL and other militant groups in Iraq. The Campaign also warns that without the inclusion of Iraqi women in diplomatic efforts to …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/international-campaign-warns-no-women-no-peace-in-iraq/
Sep 07 2014
Houzan Mahmoud: Political parties need to draw women into their ranks to make themselves “credible”.
Hazhar Osman: What is your opinion on Islamic State jihadists? Houzan Mahmoud: I would rather call them ISIS terrorists, since in my opinion Islamist jihad has always been about terror and terrorism. We can no longer separate the two terms, jihad and terrorism. Terror against defenceless civilians and massacres of non-Muslims – even Muslims …
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Sep 03 2014
Call for Iraqi Women Victimized by ISIS
The Islamic State of Iraq and Levantine (ISIS) atrocities, since the occupation of Mosul city, have shocked the Iraqi and the International community altogether. Their criminal conduct is abysmal against Iraqi women in general, and specifically against the Yazidi, Christian, Shiite Shebek and Turkomen women. The women are kidnapped and sold in groups and as …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/activities/call-for-iraqi-women-victimized-by-isis/
Aug 28 2014
OWFI Statement
Organisation of Women’s Freedom Iraq-OWFI (27/08/2014) Statement of solidarity with the Yazidi community and condemnation of ethnic cleansing of Iraq’s minority groups by ISIS.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/owfi-statement/
Aug 16 2014
Who will condemn the sexual enslavement of Iraq’s minority women?
Slavery and rape are being used as weapons of war by Isis against Yazidi and Christian women, yet rights activists are silent Evidence that women belonging to the Yazidi and Christian religious minorities in Iraq are being raped and sold into slavery by the Islamic State (Isis) is mounting. One of the first to speak …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/who-will-condemn-the-sexual-enslavement-of-iraqs-minority-women/
Aug 16 2014
AskYanar: Your Chance to Connect with an Iraqi Women’s Rights Activist
Since the beginning of the crisis in Iraq, our partner Yanar Mohammed, President of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has provided us with on-the-ground accounts of the hardships and danger Iraqi women and families are facing. Now, we want to give you the opportunity to pose your questions to her.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/askyanar-your-chance-to-connect-with-an-iraqi-womens-rights-activist/