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 Kurdistan Region and encourage discussions on the topic, its organizer told Rudaw. Full Article
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 the Kurdistan Region in 2019 as a result of gender-based violence, reminding viewers that, while their stories may be obscured, [...]
...الأطفال المولودين نتيجة للحرب العراق ليس وحيداً للصراعات تأثيرات مدمّرة على المدنيين، ومن ضمن ذلك زيادة تعرض النساء والفتيات للعنف الجنسي. يعاني العراق، كسائر دول العالم، من نتائج تفشي النزاعات المسلحة، والفشل في توفير الاستجابة الملائمة لاحتياجات الناجيات أستُخدم الإغتصاب والأنواع الأخرى من العنف الجنسي منذ زمنٍ بعيدٍ كسلاح خلال الحروب. شرّعت الأمم المتحدة القوانين [...]
...منداڵانی لەدایک بوو لەدەرئەنجامی جەنگ عێراق تەنیا نییە ململانێکان کاریگەریەکی وێرانکەریان هەیە لەسەر هاوڵاتییان، لەوانە زیادکردنی کەوتنە ژێر مەترسی توندوتیژی سێکسی بۆ کچان و ئافرەتان. عێراقیش وەک وڵاتانی تری جیهان، دەناڵێنێت بەدەست دەرئەنجامەکانی تەشەنەسەندنی ململانێ چەکدارییەکان و هەرەسی هێناوە لە دابینکردنی وڵامدانەوەیەکی شیاو بۆ پێداویستییەکانی ڕزگاربووان دەستدرێژی سێکسی و جۆرەکانی تری توندوتیژی سێکسی لە زووەوە [...]
Children Born of War Iraq is not alone…. Conflict has a devastating effect on civilians, including increasing the vulnerability of women and girls to sexual violence. Iraq, like countries the world over, struggles with the consequences of protracted armed conflict, and fails to adequately respond to the needs of survivors. Rape and other forms [...]
A mother brought her son Ary*, three years old, to SEED’s facilities in a local public health clinic in Erbil, seeking help for her son’s aggressive behavior and describing it as abnormal for his age; he was needy, aggressive, always crying, and hurting others around him with knives. Ary had a lack of focus and [...]
SEED is working to raise awareness of sexual exploitation, harassment, and abuse to better protect girls and women by reducing their vulnerabilities, increasing their knowledge of how to protect themselves, or access to protective services when they are not, and to strengthen family support and build healthier relationships. Sexual exploitation, harassment, and [...]
As a Yezidi community activist, Faisal* was constantly exposed to stories including the genocide, rape, killing, and torture of his people comitted by ISIS leaving Faisal experiencing symptoms of emotional trauma. However, with psychological support facilitated by SEED for him and his family, he has improved his mental health significantly and enabled him to return [...]
Women and girls, in particular, in Kurdistan and Iraq often face forms of abuse in the home, including but not limited to physical and emotional harm. Lacking sufficient local psychosocial systems, survivors have few options. In one recent example, SEED’s partner organization in Sulaimani, Wchan, provided mental health services in order to help Helin* improve [...]
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 grave need of medical care, according to Sherri Kraham Talabany, President and Executive Director of the SEED Foundation. Full Article [...]