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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 [...]