Sexual harassment of women and girls in Kurdistan is widespread - on the street, online, in taxis, in schools, and in the workplace. It makes us fearful and keeps us from fully participating in school, work, community, and public life. This harms all of us. Through our #STOPabuse campaign, SEED is working to raise [...]
Source: Al-Monitor / Author: Amberin Zaman / Date: February 12, 2020 Many credit SEED’s co-founder Sherri Kraham Talabani for badgering Iraqi Kurdish authorities into establishing the department for combating trafficking in persons in 2018, and which became operational in June 2019. Full Article
Source: Rudaw English / Author: Hannah Lynch / Date: December 11, 2019 Developing policing procedures and training frontline workers has been a priority of the government and international organizations helping the Kurdistan Region and Iraq establish strategies to combat human trafficking. Journalist Hannah Lynch wrote a four-part series about forms of human trafficking in [...]
In Iraq, many young women are subjected to harassment, exploitation, and abuse due to manipulation of their photos. It may seem innocent, but it's not a joke and can have dire consequences for the victim. And sharing this edited photo on social media is not only wrong, but in Kurdistan it's also illegal. SEED [...]
Source: Rudaw English/ Author: Karwan Faidhi Dri/ Date: February 10, 2020 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A one-month exhibition opened on Monday in Erbil aims to bring national focus to gender-based violence (GBV) in the Kurdistan Region and encourage discussions on the topic, its organizer told Rudaw. Full Article
Source: NRT/ Author: Winthrop Rodgers/ Date: February 2, 2020 SULAIMANI — Behind a curtain, in a darkened room at a new exhibition in Erbil, candlelight illuminates the initials of 120 women who died in the Kurdistan Region in 2019 as a result of gender-based violence, reminding viewers that, while their stories may be obscured, [...]
...الأطفال المولودين نتيجة للحرب العراق ليس وحيداً للصراعات تأثيرات مدمّرة على المدنيين، ومن ضمن ذلك زيادة تعرض النساء والفتيات للعنف الجنسي. يعاني العراق، كسائر دول العالم، من نتائج تفشي النزاعات المسلحة، والفشل في توفير الاستجابة الملائمة لاحتياجات الناجيات أستُخدم الإغتصاب والأنواع الأخرى من العنف الجنسي منذ زمنٍ بعيدٍ كسلاح خلال الحروب. شرّعت الأمم المتحدة القوانين [...]
...منداڵانی لەدایک بوو لەدەرئەنجامی جەنگ عێراق تەنیا نییە ململانێکان کاریگەریەکی وێرانکەریان هەیە لەسەر هاوڵاتییان، لەوانە زیادکردنی کەوتنە ژێر مەترسی توندوتیژی سێکسی بۆ کچان و ئافرەتان. عێراقیش وەک وڵاتانی تری جیهان، دەناڵێنێت بەدەست دەرئەنجامەکانی تەشەنەسەندنی ململانێ چەکدارییەکان و هەرەسی هێناوە لە دابینکردنی وڵامدانەوەیەکی شیاو بۆ پێداویستییەکانی ڕزگاربووان دەستدرێژی سێکسی و جۆرەکانی تری توندوتیژی سێکسی لە زووەوە [...]
Children Born of War Iraq is not alone…. Conflict has a devastating effect on civilians, including increasing the vulnerability of women and girls to sexual violence. Iraq, like countries the world over, struggles with the consequences of protracted armed conflict, and fails to adequately respond to the needs of survivors. Rape and other forms [...]
A mother brought her son Ary*, three years old, to SEED’s facilities in a local public health clinic in Erbil, seeking help for her son’s aggressive behavior and describing it as abnormal for his age; he was needy, aggressive, always crying, and hurting others around him with knives. Ary had a lack of focus and [...]