Hozan Mahmoud is a women's rights activist and founder of the Cultural Project, and she has been fighting to reform laws that harm women's rights. The campaign for a secular constitution was one of the most important activities that she has worked on, and through the Women's Freedom Organization in Iraq and other organizations, she was finally able to take a step towards secularizing the constitution through a lot of civil pressure in Iraq and Kurdistan.
In the year 2005, after the honour-killing and stoning of Dua, Hozan Mahmoud organized an international campaign against honor killings and the killing of women in Kurdistan. Through this campaign, there was great pressure to make some changes to women's rights in the legal texts.
The campaign also had affects on the treatment of murder and violence against women by government agencies in Kurdistan. She has since led several major international campaigns to defend women's rights in Kurdistan and Iraq.
In addition, Hozan Mahmoud has continued to hold conferences and seminars in Kurdish and English in Kurdistan and around the world, in order to convey the voice of oppressed women and the crimes of feminicide to the whole world.
Hozan Mahmoud, an activist, feminist and women's rights activist, won the Emma Humphrey Award at a special ceremony in London on 06-04-2017. In fact, only eight individuals and organizations were shortlisted for this prestigious award. Only two of the eight won the award: Hozan Mahmoud and the Cultural Project and Shakila Mann and her organization (South Hull Black Sisters).[1]