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SEED President Highlights Alarming Consequences of Gender Inequality in Kurdistan
SEED President Highlights Alarming Consequences of Gender Inequality in Kurdistan In 2021, Iraq ranked 166 out of 170 countries for gender equality - with the rate of Intimate Partner Violence at 45%. We must act [...]
Sexual Violence in Conflict – High Council of Women’s Affairs event in Lalesh
Sexual Violence in Conflict - High Council of Women's Affairs event in Lalesh SEED was honored to join the High Council of Women's Affairs in Lalesh to speak about the importance of [...]
Pandemic leads to increase in child labor in Iraq
Source: Al-Monitor Date: 7 May, 2021 Pandemic leads to increase in child labor in Iraq Young girls sell narcissus at the traffic lights. Boys push carts with fruit or ice blocks, serve tea, help [...]
SEED VP Tanya Gilly Khailany Speaks to Rudaw TV about ‘Honor Killings’ in Kurdistan
Source: Legal Ranj, Rudaw Date: 20th April, 2021 SEED VP Tanya Gilly Khailany Speaks to Rudaw TV about ‘Honor Killings’ in Kurdistan SEED Vice President and Co-Founder, Tanya Gilly Khailany, joined Rudaw’s Ranj [...]
SEED Co-Founder Highlights NGO’s Work Toward Gender Equality on IWD
SEED Co-Founder Highlights NGO’s Work Toward Gender Equality on IWD SEED Foundation Co-Founder and Vice President Tanya Gilly Khailany highlighted the important role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can and do play to advance gender [...]
SEED President Provides an Overview of SEED’s Work in Kurdistan
Source: Kurdistan In America Date: March 26, 2021 SEED President Provides an Overview of SEED’s Work in Kurdistan SEED President and Executive Director Sherri Kraham Talabany discussed SEED’s efforts to contribute to the [...]
SEED President Kraham Talabany Discusses the Challenges Facing Survivors of ISIS with Al-Monitor
Source: Al-Monitor Date: March 16, 2021 SEED President Kraham Talabany Discusses the Challenges Facing Survivors of ISIS with Al-Monitor SEED Foundation President and Executive Director, Sherri Kraham Talabany, spoke with Al-Monitor’s Amberin Zaman [...]
Tanya Gilly Khailany Speaks to Rudawy Emro On The Passing Of The Yezidi Survivors’ Bill Into Law
Tanya Gilly Khailany Speaks to Rudawy Emro On The Passing Of The Yezidi Survivors’ Bill Into Law SEED's Co-Founder and Vice President, Tanya Gilly Khailany, joined Bestoon Khalid on a recent segment of [...]
UNFPA’s ‘Reporting on Gender-Based Violence During Public Health Crises’ Now Available in Kurdish
Reporting on gender-based violence, especially during crises such as #COVID-19, is a difficult and sensitive task. When ethical reporting standards are not followed, it can place the lives of survivors at risk. @UNFPAIraq’s guidelines [...]
NLG Report: MHPSS gaps and recommendations Iraq and Syria Report
"In Iraq, the SEED Foundation has created parallel lines of management and technical supervision for frontline staff. Technical supervisors provide frontline staff support with the clinical and more technical aspects of the implementation of [...]
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Iraq: Challenges and Solutions
SEED’s mental health advisor, Anne Lepelaars, spoke to Julie Meier to help frame her research for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, about the challenges to providing mental health and psychosocial support services in [...]
Human trafficking on the rise in Kurdistan Region
Source: Rudaw English / Author: Dlnia Rahman / Date: July 31, 2020 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Samira Saeed, 30, is one of dozens of workers who came to the Kurdistan Region for work, but [...]
Legacy of Terror – The Plight of Yezidi Child Survivors of ISIS
Source: Amnesty International / Date: July 2020 Amnesty International has released a report on the plight of child survivors of ISIS in Iraq, which documents the psychological, physical, and other forms of trauma that the [...]
What Happened Last Week in Kurdistan
Source: What Happened Last Week in Kurdistan/ Author: Jil Shwani / Date: March 2020 SEED Foundation Communications Program Manager Lara Fatah explains in this podcast with Jil Shwani (@whlw_kurdistan) how SEED implements its mission [...]
New Jersey woman takes on traffickers in Iraq’s Kurdistan region
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, [...]
Series: Human Trafficking in Kurdistan
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 [...]
Erbil exhibit puts national focus on gender-based violence
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 [...]
NEW EXHIBITION SHOWS TOLL OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN KURDISTAN REGION
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 [...]
‘Severe medical needs’ blight civilians fleeing Turkish offensive in Northern Syria: Sherri Talabany
Source: Rudaw English / Author: Holly Johnston/ Date: November 18, 2019 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Civilians who have fled the Turkish incursion in northern Syria to seek refuge in the Kurdistan Region are in [...]
Interview on Refugee Influx, Winter Donation Drive
Check out SEED President Sherri Kraham Talabany describing SEED’s response in the Kurdistan Region to the influx of over 15,000 refugees from Rojava. She also touched on SEED's next campaign: Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and [...]
Risking Turkey’s ire, Iraqi Kurds back Syrian brethren
Source: Al-Monitor/ Author: Amberin Zaman / Date: November 4, 2019 An oft-cited reason for why the Kurds do not have their own state is the unremitting disunity among themselves. But Turkey’s Oct. 9 assault against a [...]
The Security Implications of Human Trafficking
Source: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) /Authors: Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelste/ Date: October 2019 / This report was written as part of the CFR's Women and Foreign Policy Program. Human trafficking is a [...]
They Were Children When They Were Kidnapped By ISIS and Forced to Fight. What Happens Now That They’re Home?
Source: Time Magazine / Author: Kimberly Dozier / Date: May 23, 2019 This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Raised in northern Iraq’s small Yezidi religious minority, S. was 9 years old [...]
Interview on Human Trafficking
Watch an interview on SEED's new report Human Trafficking in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with president, Sherri Kraham Talabany on Babylon FM's Breakfast Club.
Teaching Megadeth in Iraq
Source: The Rolling Stone Magazine / Author: ANDREA MARKS / Date: April 11, 2019 Portland guitarist and Widespread Panic writer Jerry Joseph started Nomad Music Foundation, a nonprofit that brings guitars and music classes to kids [...]