‘Never forget’: Iraq’s long road to justice for the Yazidi genocide | The New Arab

‘Never forget’: Iraq’s long road to justice for the Yazidi genocide | The New Arab The Jiyan Foundation helped establish The Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR) who took the lead in reviving the public debate on reparations for survivors and helped to improve the initial bill. Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer with C4JR, says they […]

‘We need help’: suicides spike at Duhok’s camps for Yazidis | Rudaw

‘We need help’: suicides spike at Duhok’s camps for Yazidis | Rudaw “The Yazidi community is suffering from acute trauma and mental health challenges. I don’t know how to put it more plainly than that,” says Pari Ibrahim from FYF, which provides psychosocial support to Yazidis in the Sharya, Khanke and Sheikhan camps. “Our trauma […]

Hope in Iraq & Syria | TIE Unearthed

Hope in Iraq & Syria – TIE Unearthed Following the fall of the Saddam regime in Iraq, the first ever treatment centre for survivors of torture and war violence was opened in 2005. The centre is called the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights and on Friday I spoke with Salah Ahmad, the Founder. Salah is child […]