UNFPA, Diwaniyah Governorate Sign Agreement to Support Women in the Governorate

14 September 2021; Baghdad, Iraq - UNFPA & Diwaniyah Governorate signed a cooperation agreement today to scale up the support to girls and women in the governorate.

The agreement signed by Dr Rita Columbia, UNFPA Representative, and Mr Zuhair Ali Al-Shaalan, the Governor of Diwaniyah will ensure that women and girls have access to protection and proper services to respond to gender-based violence. In addition, it will provide the Directorates of Health, Labour and Social Affairs, and Interior (Family Protection Unit) with the opportunity to strengthen their expertise on service delivery to survivors to deal with gender-based violence.

Speaking during the ceremony, Mr Al-Shaalan emphasised the governorate’s full support to work with UNFPA to ensure the success of the project to provide quality service to women and girls. He also reiterated the governorate’s efforts to enhance the role of women and girls, increase equality in leadership roles and become a unique model for active communities to contribute to the development process.

Dr Columbia thanked the Governor for supporting the needs and rights of women and girls in Diwaniyah: “On behalf of UNFPA Iraq, I welcome this initiative and look forward to our joint actions to protect women and girls from violence and provide them with so much needed services.”

The cooperation agreement between UNFPA and the Governorate is within the UNFPA 2020-2024 Country Programme Document and the Memorandum of Understanding between UNFPA & the Government of Iraq, through the Ministry of Planning.

Salwa Moussa

Salwa Moussa

UNFPA

Communications Specialist

smoussa@unfpa.org

+9647809171035

UN entities involved in this initiative:

UNFPA

United Nations Population Fund

Goals we are supporting through this initiative:

https://iraq.un.org/en/sdgs/5

https://iraq.un.org/en/sdgs/17

https://iraq.un.org/en/144289-unfpa-diwaniyah-governorate-sign-agreement-support-women-governorate

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Al-Diwaniyah departments closed "until the dismissal of corrupt local governors"

Kurdistan

2020-06-28 07:33

Shafaq News / A local source in Al-Diwaniyah reported today, Sunday, that protestors stormed the local government building and two health and education departments.

The source told Shafaq News agency that the protestors issued a statement this morning, in which they announced "the closure of the health and education departments", noting that the demonstrations were organized after they learned that the governorate council building, which "lost its legitimacy", was opened.

Additionally, the source quoted the demonstrators saying that Al-Diwaniyah Health Department will remain closed until the dismissal of the health department Director.

It is noteworthy that the Demonstrators have previously closed the building of the local government, as well as other government departments and institutions, to demand the dismissal of "corrupt" directors.

https://shafaq.com/en/kurdistan/al-diwaniyah-departments-closed-until-the-dismissal-of-corrupt-local-governors/