‘International Women's Day is not a day of celebration; it is a day of mutual support’: Lanja Khawe

Lanja Khawe

Lanja Khawe, lawyer and human rights activist Source: Lanja Khawe

Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist Lanja Khawe speaks to us about International Women’s Day and the situation of women in Kurdistan Region, where the number of women who are losing their lives due to domestic violence is increasing in the region.


Ms Khawê was born in 1993 in the city of Sulaymany in southern Kurdistan and resides there, she works on cases of women who have faced domestic violence. She says the government needs to have a policy and a plan as well as serious case studies t to combat femicide (murder of women) in the Region.

“The reason behind the recurrence of cases is there is no policy and plan to prevent femicide in advance. But when a woman is killed, all stand against it,” Ms Khawe said.


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