Feb 12 2017
We are proud and grateful to have received significant new funding for our work in the last few months. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a long-time supporter of OWFI, has partnered with us again for a multi-year project to support a wide range of OWFI’s efforts to advance legal and social improvements for Iraqi …
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Feb 12 2017
In January, an OWFI activist team visited people displaced by the fighting in Mosul who are living in the Khazir camp. We provided bread-baking stoves and sufficient amounts of flour to 10 women who have suffered human rights violations by ISIS fighters. Each of these 10 women will be able to support 20 tents through the …
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Mar 19 2016
OWFI held the founding event of organizing a Black-Iraqi Women’s gathering on 16th of February, led by Alia Ali (5th from left). Alia championed running our shelter for Black-Iraqi women in Baghdad successfully for the last 2 years. It is time for Alia and the Sisters in Iraq to defend their rights to dignity and …
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Mar 19 2016
We have recently opened a shelter for Yazidi women and girls who have escaped slavery by ISIS. OWFI activists rented a house, furnished it, and conducted many planning and training sessions with our new activists there. I met with five ISIS survivors, mostly under 20 years old, and spoke words of support and apologized for …
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Feb 25 2016
ONE BILLION RISING, AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM, and the CENTER FOR INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES (CISPS) AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL presents: BODIES OF REVOLUTION: WOMEN RISE AGAINST THE VIOLENCE OF POLICE, STATES & EMPIRE Moderated by Laura Flanders (The Laura Flanders Show) and Featuring: Fartuun Adan SOMALIA Suad Amiry PALESTINE Kimberle Williams Crenshaw USA Eve …
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May 09 2015
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of ‘safety’ that are really about death and destruction, cruelty and conflict, grandiosity and greed. Marion Bowman reports from the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference in the Netherlands. It was a classic image of protectiveness. The figure of a …
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Mar 25 2015
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 …
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Feb 21 2015
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 …
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Feb 21 2015
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 …
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Feb 05 2015
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, …
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Sep 03 2014
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 …
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Apr 03 2014
Male, Class, and Sectarian Oppression are Strengthened Through Exploiting and Subjugating Us Eleven years of violence in Iraq have resulted in the escalation of a sectarian, authoritarian, backward, and oppressive rule; these years led to the creation of a dictatorial power that violently opposes any actions for liberation and egalitarian demands; an authoritarian dictatorship that …
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights award was presented to Yanar
Mohammed, the president of OWFI in recognition of her endeavors in voicing Iraqi
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Calling of Women from Around the World to Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters
in Iraq. Women from Around the World Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters in
Iraq and Call for an End to Sexual Assault of Women Protesters...>>More
Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Girls in Iraq. A fact finding report prepared by Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq...>>More
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