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From Victims to Survivors – Violence, Memory and Social Reconstruction in Rizgari, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
As part of a lecture series at the Center for Asian & Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Karin Mlodoch will speak on 18 January 2022 at 6 pm about the situation of Anfal surviving women in Kurdistan-Iraq and...
Newsletter December 2021
Dear members, friends, supporters and donors of HAUKARI e.V, As the year draws to a close, we would like to take a moment to review the year in a newsletter. We would like to thank you for your support over...
International Day against Violence against Women 2021
On the ‘International Day against Violence against Women’ on 25 November, the KHANZAD Women’s Centre took part in the 16-day UN campaign ‘Orange the World – End Violence against Women Now!’ Various formats were organised as part of the campaign...
Anfal Exhibition a Sigmund Freud University Berlin
Our Anfal exhibition is currently on display at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin. The portraits show Anfal survivors with memorabilia of their disappeared and murdered relatives. The exhibition is part of a memorial project of the university, which includes remembrance...
Farewell from Ursula Schumm-Garling
Ursula Schumm-Garling, our dear friend and long-time member of HAUKARI, passed away in Berlin on Tuesday at the age of 83.Despite all her energy and the wish to spend many more years with us, Ursula did not manage to recover...
Memorial Event to mark the 33rd Anniversary of the Anfal Operations
On 19 April 2021, the victims of the Anfal operations of the Iraqi army against the Kurdish population were commemorated in Sarqala, Diyala province, Kurdistan/Iraq. At the commemorative event to mark the 33rd anniversary, Anfal surviving women were honoured for...
Report on the Youth and Culture Centre Kifri
The Kurdish television station KURDSAT has reported on the activities of the youth and cultural centre in Kifri. Click here for the report.The centre is supported by HAUKARI e.V. with donations and funds from the BMZ.
Continuing: Physical Distance – Social Closeness – International Solidarity
Continuing: Physical Distance – Social Closeness – International SolidarityDear friends and supporters of HAUKARI e.V., What a year!!!! Whether in Germany or Iraq, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives. Some of us have lost loved ones; we send...
Heart-breaking news from Kurdistan-Iraq
Sadly, on 9th of October 2020, Mahabad Qaradaghi, poet, novelist, and women rights activist, passed away in Erbil.Mahabad was born in 1966 in Kifri in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. At the age of 14 she published her first collection...
Global Appeal – Patents Kill
Wir, die Unterzeichnenden, fordern von unseren Regierungen eine Politik, die Arzneimittel als globale öffentliche Güter behandelt und die Macht von Pharmaunternehmen im öffentlichen Interesse begrenzt; eine Politik, die an den Gesundheitsbedürfnissen der Menschen ausgerichtet ist.HAUKARI e.V. gehört den ErstunterzeichnerInnen des...