Falah Shakarm

Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serves as a board member of Human Rights Defenders and a network of 15 NGOs in the Iraqi Kurdistan region that works to promote human rights, legal assistance for women, and support for survivors of chemical weapons attacks.