Our History
Rasan is a nongovernmental organization that was established in 2004. It works for defending women and LGBTQI rights in Iraq generally and Kurdistan specifically.
Our Vision & Mission
Having a country of gender equality and liberty and working to improve the lives of women, youth, and the LGBTQI community in Iraq.
Our Objectives
To achieve its objectives, Rasan implements the following activities:
- Protection:
- Providing legal, psychological, and social support directly for women clients and LGBTQI
- Helping clients to understand and exercise their legal, social, medical, economic, and political rights.
- Providing women with basic needs such as food, hygiene, and clothes, especially for vulnerable women such as refugees, IDPs, widows, pregnant mothers, and divorced women.
- Awareness:
- Training courses and workshops for women. Men, and youth. Awareness-raising for leaders in society such as government officials, tribal chiefs, religious leaders, political parties, and others.
- Working with community advisory committees and youth to combat violence against women and girls and promote LGBTQI Rights.
- Convening conferences and seminars to raise awareness about women’s rights and the impacts of gender-based violence.
- Research and monitoring:
- Collecting and compiling data on the prevalence of gender-based violence and LGBTQI community publishing findings on an online database.
- Conducting assessments to understand the basic needs of women and LGBTQI in host communities, refugee camps, and IDPs areas.
- Lobby and alliance:
- Working in coordination with the Kurdish government and influencing the development of legal standards and laws that protect women and LGBTQI
- Combating traditions and customs that contradict women’s rights and LGBTQI Rights.
- Women’s capacity building and Empowerment :
- Professional training
- Special educational programs and professional curricula.
- Research and economic studies that contribute to raising the standard of living for women
Future Work
The organization’s main goals for the next two to three years and why they are important to us.
- Combating violence against women and LGBTQI.
- Eradication of discrimination and all forms of violence against women and LGBTQI.
- Promoting the awareness of the public about the negative consequences of violence against women and LGBTQI.
- Helping women and LGBTQI members to reach their legal, social, medical, economic, and political rights.
- Assisting women and LGBTQI to have a better life by providing basic needs of life such as food, hygiene, cloth, and etc for vulnerable women especially; refugees, IDPs, widows, pregnant, and divorced.
Because we believe in serving the society and developing it to form a better life for everyone in it, and we see that women’s rights and LGBTQI Rights issue is not only about women and LGBTQI themselves. It is actually about every single human being, we have listed these goals and dedicated our lives to achieve them.
Our Team
She was a Kurdistan Parliament candidate for the 2013 elections, and an active member of Sulaymaniyah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also a member of, and participated in the following: Women Union of Kurdistan since 2006, Communication manager of Economical Empowerment of Widows in Iraq in 2009, Member of 1325 Security Council Resolution in 2010, communication specialist at the business women association of Iraq in Kurdistan 2013, and a member of the public collaboration at Kurdistan Peace Friendship Collaboration.
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