Author: Katja Dombrowski

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Salah Ahmad, founder of the Jiyan Foundation (photo: Jiyan Foundation)

Trauma therapy in Iraqi Kurdistan

″It is possible to build a peaceful society″

Iraq′s autonomous region of Kurdistan is home to approximately 2 million refugees from various backgrounds and religions. Since 2005, the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights has been providing medical, psychotherapeutic and social support to survivors of torture, persecution and violence. Katja Dombrowski discussed matters with Salah Ahmad, the Foundation′s founder and presidentMore

Iraqi Kurdistan in political and economic crisis: Barzani′s sinking shipYazidis and Kurds in Iraq Are we arming the right people?The culture and faith of the Yazidis: Demonised and eternally misunderstoodThe Jiyan Foundation website
Pro-women's rights demonstration in Aden (photo: DW/N. Alyousefi)

Violence against women

Young Arab men fight for women′s rights

Fifteen years after Security Council Resolution 1325 called on all parties to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, such violence remains widespread throughout the Arab world. The good news is that ever more young Arab men are joining women′s rights organisations. By Katja DombrowskiMore

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