“Protecting and Empowering Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Kurdistan Region of Iraq” SEED Foundation’s new program in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Like in the rest of Iraq, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) are pervasive in the Kurdistan Region (KRI). There are efforts by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to face the problem of GBV, including [...]
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 [...]
COVID-19 PSS Training for Community Coordinators and Mobilizers
As SEED’s community coordinators and mobilizers logged on one by one to the video call and greeted each other, there was both excitement and curiosity for the first remote psychosocial support (PSS) training for staff [...]
SEED Launches a MHPSS Standard of Care Tailored for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
To promote improved services to some of the most vulnerable and violence-affected people in the world, SEED Foundation worked with a broad range of stakeholders to develop a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) [...]
Adapting to MHPSS Service Delivery during COVID 19
It has been well documented that COVID-19 measures of social isolation and movement restrictions can impact and exacerbate pre-existing symptoms, especially for those with mental health needs or at risk of gender based violence (GBV). [...]
Importance of Managing Stress and Well-being during COVID-19
The subject of mental health, stress, and wellbeing are often regarded as taboo in Kurdish culture. With the COVID-19 restriction measures, periods of lockdown that Kurdistan has endured since March, and increased economic hardship, it [...]
SEED Delivers PPE to KRG TIP Police for COVID-19
As COVID19 measures came into force in early March 2020, SEED Foundation staff provided much-needed gloves and masks and other supplies to police officers at Erbil’s Directorate of Human Trafficking Trafficking in Persons (TIP) police [...]
Dr. Mirza, A Voice for the Voiceless
Dr. Mirza Dinnayi was awarded the Aurora Prize in October for his work as a Yezidi activist and for rescuing more than 1,5000 victims of terrors and rehabilitating hundreds of women and girls used by [...]
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 [...]