The jurist and politician Shirin Ibrahim Fatah, known as Shirin Amedi, joined the Party ranks in 1983, represented the Tenth Congress 1989, became a member of the Central Committee at the Eleventh 1993 and Twelfth 1999 congresses, and at the Thirteenth Congress 2010 was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Shirin Amedi was born in 1967 in Duhok. In 1986 she was admitted to the College of Agriculture at Mosul University, and in the same year, to protect herself from Iraqi government intelligence agents, she went to the liberated areas. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in law, she was admitted in 2004 as a law master’s student at Salahaddin University-Erbil. She is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English.

Struggle Record

Shirin Amedi joined the ranks of the Party in 1983. In 1988, after the Anfal of Badinan, she went to Turkey and lived for a time in the Gever camp, then in 1989 went to Iran and lived there as a refugee.

She represented the Tenth Congress 1989, became a member of the Central Committee at the Eleventh 1993 and Twelfth 1999 congresses, and at the Thirteenth Congress 2010 was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1991 she returned to South Kurdistan, joined the Kurdistan Women’s Union, and served as secretary of the Kurdistan Women’s Union during (1992-2007).

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