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The women’s network connects Kurdish women across countries for leadership, work and support. It is forming.

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Forming
What it offers
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Courses
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Country programmes
35
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subject

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  1. Kariane Westrheim (2022). Chapter 6. Learning Processes and Political Literacy among Women in the Norwegian Kurdish Diaspora. Berghahn Books. DOI 10.1515/9781782383079-010
  2. Wendelmoet Hamelink, Ruşan Güngör (2022). A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2131511
  3. Handan Çağlayan (2019). Kurdish Women in Political Organizations: The Kurdish Movement and Pro-Kurdish Political Parties. Women in the Kurdish Movement. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-24744-7_4
  4. Ozlem Belcim Galip (2021). Move over? Feminist reading of academic writing on Kurdish women. Zenodo. DOI 10.1080/12259276.2021.1993599
  5. Gabriele Leone (2025). Empowering Kurdish Women in Turkey: Understanding the Dynamics of Gender-Based Violence, Contentious Politics, and Resistance. Partecipazione e Conflitto. DOI 10.1285/i20356609v18i1p266

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Leadership

    Learning and peer groups for women who lead or want to.

  • 02

    Enterprise

    Links to the Founders and Mentoring programmes.

  • 03

    Support circles

    Small groups with trained facilitators.

  • 04

    Writing and history

    Study of Kurdish women writers and women’s movements.

02Who it is for

  • Women in the diaspora
  • Women in the homeland
  • Newcomer women
  • Women founders

03How it works

Interest
women register interest in the network.
Circle
a circle forms within a Chapter or Community Cell.
Programme
the circle sets its own activities.
Referral
facilitators point to vetted services when needed.

04What it always keeps

  • Non-partisan: no movement or party is endorsed
  • Protected participation: names are never published without consent
  • Facilitators are trained in safeguarding
  • Referrals go to vetted services only

05Courses

  • Kurdish society and politics · Foundations, Scholar

    Women’s movements

    Outline in preparation.

    Wave 2 Planned

  • Kurdish literatures · Foundations, Scholar

    Kurdish women writers

    Outline in preparation.

    Wave 3 Planned

06More in Development

  • Forming

    Youth

    Leadership, identity and heritage for young Kurds in the homeland and the diaspora.

  • In preparation

    Elders

    Company, care information and the recording of memory for older Kurds.

  • In preparation

    Wellbeing

    Vetted referrals to culturally competent care, and literacy on trauma and resilience.

  • In preparation

    Newcomers

    A local guide from a Community Cell for your first months in a new country.

  • Forming

    Families and mother-tongue schools

    Support for families who pass on Kurdish and for weekend mother-tongue schools.

  • In preparation

    Convenings

    Festivals, lectures and gatherings, with private venues where safety requires it.

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Women. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/development/women/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Women.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/development/women/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Women},
	url = {https://kurds.global/development/women/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/development/women/},
}

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07Learn in the Academy

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08Research and sources

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  1. Chapter 6. Learning Processes and Political Literacy among Women in the Norwegian Kurdish Diaspora

    Kariane Westrheim · 2022 · Berghahn Books

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

  2. A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness

    Wendelmoet Hamelink, Ruşan Güngör · 2022 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  3. Kurdish Women in Political Organizations: The Kurdish Movement and Pro-Kurdish Political Parties

    Handan Çağlayan · 2019 · Women in the Kurdish Movement

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. Move over? Feminist reading of academic writing on Kurdish women

    Ozlem Belcim Galip · 2021 · Zenodo

    ArticleZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  5. Empowering Kurdish Women in Turkey: Understanding the Dynamics of Gender-Based Violence, Contentious Politics, and Resistance

    Gabriele Leone · 2025 · Partecipazione e Conflitto

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  6. Hormonal aspects of skin hyperpigmentation in healthy Kurdish primigravida women in Erbil City

    Renas Najat Saleem, Sarbaz Ibrahim Mohammed · 2021 · Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. The mental health of Kurdish women surviving migration

    Choman Hardi · 2021 · University of Kent

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0

  8. Kurdish Women as Political Agents: Kurdish Political Movement, Gender Equality, and Women’s Freedom

    Handan Çağlayan · 2019 · Women in the Kurdish Movement

    ChapterCrossref

  9. Pharmacogenetic insights: CYP2D6 variability in Kurdish post-cesarean women on tramadol

    Shaymaa Faruq Hamadameen, Kawa Fareq Dizaye · 2025 · Pharmacia

    ArticleZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  10. Life at the margins: Kurdish women migrants

    Heidi Wedel, Heidi > Auteur Wedel · 2022 · NAKALA – https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num – CNRS)

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  11. The Position of Kurdish Women in the View of the British in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    Qadir MUHAMMAD · 2023 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  12. The Unnatural Silence of the Invisible Iraqi Kurdish Women

    Kani Kamil Majid · 2026 · Manchester Metropolitan University

    ThesisDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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