SEED's first gala dinner event in Washington, DC, No Survivor Should Suffer Alone, on May 19th, was a great success! Over 200 guests included friends, philanthropists, corporate sponsors, and members of the foreign policy, think thank and media communities. Many thanks to all who supported the evening and especially our amazing Master of Ceremonies Elise [...]
Wars and terrorism are stressful. The traumatised have nowhere to turn WHEN Neda told her children that she might have to kill them, they assented. Such was their suffering after Islamic State kidnapped and enslaved them, along with thousands of other Yazidis, a religious minority, in northern Iraq in 2014. Read More...
After centuries of being virtually unknown in the West, we now all know of the plight of the Yezidi people. And what we know is not good. Yezidis are one of Iraq’s oldest religious groups. They have been marginalized and have suffered persecution for centuries, and have born the brunt of the cruel sectarian violence [...]
Today, SEED sent a team to Sharya Camp in Dohuk to provide support to two women and their children who escaped ISIS recently, after a year and a half in captivity. These women returned without their husbands and some of their children, who are still in captivity or were killed. Not knowing whether their [...]
In the wake of the ISIS atrocity in Brussels, it's time to reflect on the meaning of John Kerry's recent statement that the group has committed a genocide against Yazidis. It is certainly true that ISIS has done its best to wipe out members of the ancient monotheistic religion, killing thousands of men, enslaving women [...]
Runak is a Kurdish Yazidi and one of 5,000 women and children enslaved by IS. Her husband was taken, presumed dead. Her eldest son was abducted, probably to an IS training camp. Her eight-year old son was held for months and returned, probably after sexual abuse. Read More...
Sherri Kraham Talabany, President of SEED Kurdistan discussed SEED's efforts to help Yezidi (Yazidi) women, refugees, and other victims of ISIS/ISIL violence on the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Smart Women, Smart Power podcast in an episode entitled "Iraq – The View from Kurdistan." Listen here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iraq-the-view-from-kurdistan/id924940383?i=361886141&mt=2
SEED is delighted to receive funding from the Canadian Government to work with displaced men and boys to combat gender-based violence. Engaging men and boys is proven as an effective strategy for reducing violence against women, and also reducing the violence that men and boys themselves face. Engaging men and boys as both survivors [...]
SEED President Sherri Kraham Talabani was interviewed by Fox’s Bret Baier. View the full interview:
Click to view our photo album. The SEED Center’s official opening ceremony took place on Sunday November 29. We were delighted to welcome over one hundred guests, including the Governor of Duhok, the Deputy Governor of Duhok, the Mayor of Akre and the Head of Duhok’s Bureau of Relief and Humanitarian Affairs. We were also [...]