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The Caliphate Is Crushed, But ISIS Infants—Innocent, Abandoned and Despised—Live On
The Caliphate Is Crushed, But ISIS Infants—Innocent, Abandoned and Despised—Live On Source: Daily Beast / Author: KIMBERLY DOZIER DUHOK, Iraqi Kurdistan—In no-man’s land between the Iraqi and Syrian borders, there’s a meeting point for Iraqi [...]
Psychological Wounds: Rehabilitating the Child Victims of ISIS
Psychological Wounds: Rehabilitating the Child Victims of ISIS Source: The Globe Post / Author: Bryan Bowman When Arya, a young Yazidi girl, returned home after being kidnapped by ISIS, she could no longer speak [...]
For these victims of ISIS, the conflict isn’t over
For these victims of ISIS, the conflict isn't over Source: CNN Opinion / Author: Gayle Tsemach Lemmon At the State Department's "ministerial to advance religious freedom" last week, Vice President Mike Pence noted the plight [...]
Exclusive: State Department Takes Strongest Steps Yet to Combat Human Trafficking Abroad
Exclusive: State Department Takes Strongest Steps Yet to Combat Human Trafficking Abroad Source: Breitbart News / Author: Adelle Nazarian Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, has existed for thousands of years and is still [...]
Living With Genocide: Four Years After ISIS Attacked
Living With Genocide: Four Years After ISIS Attacked Source: Hudson Institute / Author: C-Span In the summer of 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militants attacked the city of Mosul and then continued [...]
Over 3,100 Yazidi women and children still missing four years after genocide by ISIS in Iraq
Over 3,100 Yazidi women and children still missing four years after genocide by ISIS in Iraq Source: Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis / Author: Laura Kelly Over 3,000 Yazidi's are still missing [...]
‘Alle ongelovigen doden? Natuurlijk wil ik dat niet’
De Standaard / March 27, 2018 Many children returning from ISIS captivity face tantrums, bedwetting, and rebellious behaviour. "Children are like sponges," says Zaid Abdullah, a Team Leader at SEED. "They easily pick up new [...]
SEED’s Co-Founder and Vice President speaker at TEDxNishtimanWomen
SEED’s Co-Founder and Vice President Tanya Gilly Khailany, was one of eight speakers during TEDxNishtimanWomen on November 3 in Saad Abdullah Hall in Erbil, Kurdistan Region. Tanya’s speech was about the importance of women’s participation in [...]
ISIS has planted a ticking bomb that is hard to defuse: traumatized children
The Christian Science Monitor / September 21, 2017 Iraq hasn't enough mental health professionals to handle the legions of traumatized children who, because of ISIS, saw and did things they never should have. But if [...]
How ISIS-trained child soldiers are a ticking time bomb
Children were uniquely victimized by ISIS. First, as bystanders caught in a brutal war, but more shockingly, as soldiers who were recruited, indoctrinated with a deadly ideology, then trained to kill and fight on the [...]
SEED’s President speaks at TEDx
SEED’s President, Sherri Kraham Talabany, was part of Kurdistan’s first TEDx Nishtiman event on the first of April, in Saad Abdulla Hall in Erbil, Kurdistan. The theme for TEDx Nishtiman was rehabilitation and development. Sherri [...]
En Irak, rencontre avec des survivants de Daech qui peinent à se reconstruire
Ils ont échappé à la mort et à la famine, pas aux drames et aux traumatismes. Alors que les jours du groupe Etat islamique semblent comptés à Mossoul, les Irakiens délivrés des djihadistes tentent d'oublier l'enfer [...]
Iraq’s Hidden Wounds
SHERRI KRAHAM TALABANY — Helping vulnerable populations requires an integrated approach to mental healthcare and socio-economic empowerment. Read More: https://postwarwatch.com/2017/05/01/iraqs-hidden-wounds/
ISIS Threat to Religious and Ethnic Minorities, Part 5
ISIS Threat to Religious and Ethnic Minorities, Part 5 Representatives of religious non-governmental organizations working to help refugees in Iraq and Syria were among the panelists in a discussion on helping religious minorities persecuted by [...]
SEED Foundation Rescues Women from ISIS Terror in Iraqi Kurdistan. Washington Diplomat, Larry Luxner, July 6, 2016.
The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit group established by Sherri Kraham Talabany, made its local debut May 19 with a gala dinner at Washington’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The fundraiser attracted more than 200 people and raised [...]
TheBlaze interview Sherri Kraham Talabany – SEED Foundation of Kurdistan
Jason interviews Sherri from S.E.E.D foundation of KurdistanJason interviews Sherri from S.E.E.D foundation of Kurdistan Posted by TheBlaze on Monday, 21 November 2016
Sherri Kraham Talabani: Kurdistan’s future lies in investing in women, youth. Rudaw, July 08, 2016
Sherri Kraham Talabani: Kurdistan’s future lies in investing in women, youth ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—A stronger, more democratic, prosperous future for the Kurdistan Region lies with empowering the nation’s women and supporting them in leadership and [...]
Mindfield, The Economist, Roger McShane, May 21, 2016
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 [...]
The Yezidi People’s 15 Minutes In The Spotlight Are Over. But That Doesn’t Mean You Can Stop Caring. Independent Journal review, May 06, 2016
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. [...]
Worldview: Two groups offering aid and support to Yazidi refugees. Philly.com, Trudy Rubin, March 25, 2016
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 [...]
A day in the life of a Yazidi woman. NewStatesman, Gray Kent, 17 February, 2016
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 [...]
SEED President Featured on CSIS Podcast “Smart Women, Smart Power”. CSIS, 02 March, 2016
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 [...]
SEED President Interviewed on Fox News
SEED President Sherri Kraham Talabani was interviewed by Fox’s Bret Baier. View the full interview: