Suicide exposes the ongoing trauma of Iraq’s Halabja killings | Middle East Eye
Suicide rates increase within Iraq’s Yazidi community | Al-Monitor
Berlin Architects Draw on Traditional Building Techniques for Kurdish Safe Haven | Metropolis
Berlin Architects Draw on Traditional Building Techniques for Kurdish Safe Haven | Metropolis Magazine The project—one of several similar enterprises operated by the Berlin-based Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights—is unfolding in phases. The first, a center for animal-assisted therapy designed by Berlin studio ZRS Architekten, wrapped in late 2016, and the second, a seminar house and bakery […]
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Where Language Fails: Art Therapy Can Succeed
Art is an important part of life. Through art we can tell stories, explore our inner world and express feelings that cannot be put into words. The combination of art and therapy allows traumatized people to find a way to handle their toughest experiences. That is why we promote a variety of artistic…
Civil Society in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region Launch the ‘Coalition for Just Reparations’ | Middle East Centre
In an event held in Erbil on 6 November 2019, 25 civil society organisations (CSOs) based in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) announced the establishment of the Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR), a joint effort to advocate for reparations for victims of serious violations of international law that took place during the […]
The right to reparation: laudable goal or empty promise? | OpenGlobalRights
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Chemical attacks: How the nightmare of 1988 still haunts an Iraqi town | Middle East Eye
Chemical attacks: How the nightmare of 1988 still haunts an Iraqi town | Middle East Eye Azad Mustafa Qader, a doctor at the Jiyan Foundation clinic, says that after the Ghouta attack, staff at the clinic noticed a rise in calls from patients. “People were plain and simple scared. They believed that Halabja was next […]