
Resource type:
Strategies and action plans
Thematic areas:
Violence against women
Countries:
Iraq
Document language:
English
SDGs:
The National Strategy to Combat Violence against Women in Kurdistan (for ten years) 2017-2027
January 2017
This document comprises of five parts, as follows:
- Part One: It is a discourse on the method and the stages of laying out the strategy. It also discusses the opportunities and the impediments facing the implementation.
- Part Two: It discusses the general condition of women in brief and the legal bases, misconduct, social traditions against women, which eventually lead to various forms of violence, bringing about economic, social, medical, and psychological losses.
- Part Three: This section focuses on the current attempts in Kurdistan to confront violence against women.
- Part Four: It discusses the main areas of this strategy, consisting of the legal area, implementation, protection, supervision, and offering service to the survivors of violence.
- Part Five: Discourse on the method of how to implement and follow-up the strategy by constructing a higher board from the relevant governmental institutions and the Civil Society Organizations.