Workshop in Kirkuk 22-23d of September

These pictures are from a three day workshop in Kirkuk.

The city is quite run down, with farm animals as a part of traffic. Being from the city of Kirkuk I have many fond memories of lovely friday evenings,but seeing the state of my "hometown" brought me back to reality.

The workshop was about gender and the different types of abuse on women. There was one woman among the participants, and she said "this is the way we live,and it's how it is" when asked about the treatment of women in the Kurdish iraqi society.

The workshop was held in the local offices of the communist party in Iraq. I found the pictures of Stalin and Lenin very amusing, these people look up to them as ideologies. It says something about the progress of Iraq.

All in all it was a good workshop, filled with very interesting men and woman.

The question is, will this stay with them as the ideology of Stalin does?