KMEWO WELCOMES THE LEGISLATION OUTLAWING THE PRACTICE OF FORCED MARRIAGES
The Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women unreservedly welcome the legislation outlawing forced marriages in this Country. This is long over-due! It should also only be a first step as we would like to see the Government going much further by working with other governments to bring about a world-wide proscription of the practice. For years […]
Join KMEWO Protest to bring Justce for Dunya!
Support KMEWO in demanding Justice for Dunya!
On Friday 23rd May 2014, a 15 year’s old child bride was brutality murdered by her 45 years old polygamist husband in Iraqi Kurdistan – district Kalakji. Reports from Iraqi Kurdistan says that the husband removed one of the girl’s eyes, severed her breasts, disembowelled , tied her to a car and dragged her body […]
TRAINING WORKSHOPS – FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
The Kurdish & Middle East Organisation (KMEWO) recently started running workshops on female genital mutilation. So far we have delivered three sessions with an average attendance of 15 women from Kurdistan, the Middle East and North Africa. In their feedback all the women said that they were now positively against the practice and that they […]