کوردی “For Every Woman”: SEED Foundation and Metrography Pay Tribute to the Women of Kurdistan Celebrating Those Who Strive Everyday to Enrich and Build Strong Communities that Foster Equality and Growth November 25th, 2022, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Marking the annual occasion of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, SEED [...]
How to Recognize & Respond to Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) SEED Delivers First Ever TFGBV-focused Training in Iraq for National NGOs “TFGBV is one of the most important issues we deal with, it’s common and prevalent in our society - especially in the Middle East - due to the misuse of technology, and [...]
Restoring A Sense of Safety for Returnees in Ninewa SEED Trains over 50 NGO staff on Protection and Gender-Based Violence To date, almost 5 million Iraqis, formerly displaced by ISIS, have returned home. And while once many lived in communities that enjoyed relative safety, years of exposure to conflict and long-term displacement has resulted [...]
کوردی SEED Foundation and Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) Cement Partnership to Strengthen Protective Services Available in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) Erbil, Iraq - July 4, 2022: The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Kwestan Mohamad Abdulla and SEED Foundation President, Sherri Kraham Talabany, have [...]
کوردی Combating Domestic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq SEED Foundation commends the Kurdistan Parliament’s effort to amend the Act of Combating Domestic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Law No. 8 of 2011). SEED urges the adoption of key changes, to ensure [...]
Graduates Committed to Taking A Rights Centered Approach to Child Protection In 2021, SEED launched Strengthening Protection Responses to Children & Other Vulnerable Groups, a new child protection-focused training program designed to build the capacity of frontline service providers in Kurdistan and strengthen institutional responses to children in need. Nine months later, 41 personnel [...]
کوردی SEED Foundation Launches First Training on Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) for NGOs in Iraq Erbil, Iraq - May 9, 2022: SEED Foundation (SEED) has officially completed the delivery of a comprehensive training module on Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) to a group of 30 Iraqi NGOs. The first of its kind [...]
Connecting My Head and My Heart: How IC Thinking is Helping Survivors of Violence Re-engage with the World Despite the declaration of ISIS’s defeat in Iraq in 2017, over one million1 conflict-affected women, men, and children remain in need of assistance, with some still missing, and others displaced. In 2014, ISIS targeted the already [...]
Stronger Together: Integrative Complexity (IC) Thinking Everyone is different. Different likes and dislikes, beliefs and perspectives. But these differences don’t have to be divisive; they can, in fact, foster growth, adaptability, and resilience. That’s where the IC Thinking method, and SEED Foundation’s partnership with co-founder and developer Dr. Sara Savage, comes into it. [...]
عربي کوردی SEED Calls for Renewed Efforts to Fulfill Promises to Yezidi Survivors of ISIS When passed on March 1, 2021, the Yezidi Survivors Law was widely recognized, both locally and internationally, as a groundbreaking piece of legislation and an important milestone in Iraq’s post-conflict recovery. [...]