On 21 February, the ‘Peace and Culture Festival’ begins in Kifri, bringing together artists from all over Iraq once again this year. Theatre, concerts, dance performances, discussion panels and cinema will celebrate peaceful coexistence and cultural exchange. The short film...

We will continue our work. THANK YOU for your support! In the night from the 27th to the 28th of January 2022 the office and Youth and Culture Center in Kifri, run by the German based organization HAUKARI, was set...

Our colleague and friend Heike Iggena passed away on 19 January 2022 after a short, serious illness at the age of 57.Heike was a qualified psychologist and psychotherapist, a long-standing HAUKARI member and had accompanied and supported our work for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...