women legal assistance(WOLA),WADI and CDO together with other NGO's delivered more than 6000 signatures collected under a petition to the Iraqi-Kurdish parliament demanding a serious implementation of Law Nr. 8 from 2011. This law bans all form of domestic violence as well as FGM and promises safe shelter for abuse victims. (https://wadi-online.org/…/petition-womens-rights-in-iraqi-…/)

Unfortunately it wasn't seriously implemented until now. Therefore this campaign started and had it's first highlight on International Women's Day.

Shokh Mohammed from Wadi gave a press statement in front of the parliament building and presented the aim of this campaign: