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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, Teamleader at SEED. "They easily pick up new ideas and [...]
SEED’s Co-Founder and Vice President speaker at TEDxNishtimanWomen
SEED’s Co-Founder and Vice President Tanya Gilly-Khailany, was one of the eight speakers during TEDxNishtimanWomen on November 3rd in Saad Abdullah Hall in Erbil, Kurdistan. 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 [...]