On September 26 Civil Development Organization – CDO in partnership with UNFPA conducted the third and last Mandatory Reporting workshop in Erbil.

Directorate of Combating Violence against Women, a number of organization staffs, doctors, lawyers and judges participated in the workshop from the three governorates Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok.

The workshop discussed writing a content of agreement to make changes in the mandatory reporting laws, and the report would become a choice to the survivors while they are getting medical treatments.

After a thorough discussion, they decided to prepare the contents of agreement in cooperation with related parties to manage the process and change it into a better way according to the procedures to offer the best services and treatments to violence survivors.

Two other workshops were conducted previously in Kurdistan Region about the same subject, and this was the third one.