Protecting Children and Promoting Their Development
SEED works to promote children’s growth and development by advancing and safeguarding their rights, protecting them from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect, and supporting survivors.
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Achieving Gender Equality and Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
SEED works to empower women and girls, uphold their rights, prevent violence against them, protect survivors and support their recovery, and engage men and boys.
Connected Safely
In today’s digital world, children are more connected than ever before. As access to smartphones, gaming platforms, and social media continues to grow, so do the risks children may face online. Many of these risks are hidden, fast-moving…
Judicial Briefer: The Protected Status of Childhood and Implications for Judicial Practice in Cases of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Unprecedented access to the internet and digital technologies has dramatically increased risks to children worldwide. In Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, where legal frameworks have struggled to keep pace with evolving forms of harm…
Responding to Online Violence: A Practitioner’s Guide
In Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, online violence presents heightened and complex risks due to social stigma, limited legal frameworks, and the potential for severe offline consequences. Survivors, particularly women, girls, and children…
Child-Friendly Communication in Cases of Online Violence
Online violence against children (<18) refers to a range of harmful acts that are committed, facilitated, or amplified through digital technologies, including grooming, sexual exploitation, coercion, blackmail, online harassment, and the…
Legislative Analysis: Online Violence in Iraq and The Kurdistan Region
Examines harmful acts committed or facilitated through information and communications technology (ICT), and the frameworks for prevention, protection, prosecution, and reparation in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
SEED and JiG Launch Pocket Guide for Ethical Reporting on GBV Survivors
On World News Day, SEED and JiG launch a pocket guide to support ethical reporting on GBV survivors, helping media practitioners across Iraq and Kurdistan.
Video Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence(Opens in a new tab)
TFGBV explainer in Kurdish Sorani · YouTube