Publications
CADHP Rapport Alternatif LGBT Cote d'Ivoire
October 2012
Human Rights Violations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People in Lithuania
This shadow report is the result of a collaborative effort, developed and submitted to the Human Rights Committee by the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) and Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights.
July 2012
Human Rights Violations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People in Guatemala: A Shadow Report Submitted
The purpose of this report is to highlight the widespread and systematic human rights violations experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Guatemala. In particular, the report draws the attention of the Committee to the following breaches of the Covenant.
March 2012
Human Rights Violations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People in Belize
The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UniBAM) and the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (Heartland Alliance) respectfully requests that the Human Rights Committee consider the outlined substantive human rights violations against LGBT people in Belize, and recommends that the following topics be addressed in the List of Issues for the First Periodic Report of Belize.
August 2012
Human Rights Violations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People in Armenia
This shadow report on the human rights situation of LGBT people in Armenia was written and submitted through the collaborative efforts of the Public Information and Need of Knowledge (PINK) NGO, the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, and The George Washington University Law School International Human Rights Clinic.1
July 2012
Best, Promising, and Emerging Practices in the Treatment of Trauma
In 1997, the National Institute of Mental Health convened a working group to address the mental health consequences of torture and other related traumas. Their approach was to review related traumatic stress research and practice areas. Specific studies focusing on the treatment of torture survivors was then a small body of literature. more than eleven year later, in 2008, an international conference was ...
Mary R. Fabri, Psy.D
Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture
November 2011
Institutionalized Violence Against Women and Girls in Iraq: Laws and Practices
Throughout the world violence against women and girls occurs overwhelmingly behind closed doors in the home, but also permeates public spaces in schools, on the street, and at work. Gender-based violence is also embedded in social, political, legal and economic institutions through which women and girls lack power and autonomy, and are continually subordinated in status to their men and boys. In Iraq violence is institutionalized ...
Shertzaan Minwalla
Heartland Alliance-Iraq
2011
Also available in Kurdish
Heartbeat Iraq 1Q10
Since 2004, Heartland Alliance in cooperation with the Ministry of Health has trained 200 community mental health workers (CMHWS) and 100 physicians in 15 of Iraq's 18 governorates to provide psychosocial services through remote health center. Over the past year, John Hopkins University School of Public Health has partnered with Heartland Alliance to conduct an ongoing study to determine the most effective therapeutic intervention for torture survivors and to then provide training to all CMHWs on the intervention determined to be most effective.
February 2010
Heartlines IRAQ Issue 2 2010
The mental health services of Heartland Alliance in Kurdistan have several major components. Chief among them is the work of the Trauma Rehabilition and Training Center, (TRTC). The TRTC's clientele include victims of torture, other war-related trauma, gender-based violence and sex trafficking who are seriously troubled and in danger of worsening status. In the last three months, 33 new clients were assessed and accepted for services and 94 other clients continued to recieve ongoing therapy including individual and familty counseling, case management and psychopharmocology.
Scott Portman
Heartland Alliance International
2010
Analysis of the Health Care System of the Lake Patzcuaro Basin
This analysis of the health care system of the Lake Pátzcuaro basin in the Mexican state of Michoacán was conducted to assist Mujeres Enlazadas (ME) in the design and implementation of maternal and women’s health programs, to identify health care gaps, particularly in relation to maternal and women’s health, and to make recommendations for enhancing the existing system. After describing the study area and the existing health care system, the analysis concludes with recommendations for improving and enhancing the system as it currently exists and with a description of a model for an integrated system for maternal and women’s health...
Richard Ferguson
Mujeres Enlazadas
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
October 2009
Kurdish Human Rights Project Legal Review June 2009
The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) is an independent, non-political, nongovernmental human rights organisation founded and based in London, England. KHRP is a registered charity and is committed to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons living within the Kurdish regions, irrespective of race, religion, sex, political persuasion or other belief or opinion. Its supporters include both Kurdish and non-Kurdish people.
Kurdish Human Rights Project
June 2009
Documenting Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan
During the past few years the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has taken commendable steps to collect information on violence against women in the three northern governorates under its administration. This is an important contribution to the ongoing effort to combat gender-based violence and is a necessary steps towards gaining a better understanding of the nature and scope of violence against women in northern Iraq. More reliable data will enable the KRG and Kurdish nongovernmental organizations to develop programs that are tailored to the Iraqi contect and to the needs of Iraqi women and girls...
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
2009
Current Status of Psychiatric Inpatient Services in Sulaimania and Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Historically, mental health services have received less attention in Iraq than other healthcare sectors. Not only is there a shortage of community mental health services, inpatient services are few in number and are mainly concentrated in large urban areas. However, since 2003, a number of positive developments in mental health services have been instituted. These include the appointment of an Advisor on Mental Health at the Ministry of Health in Baghdad and the setting up of the National Mental Health Council in 2004. A Mental Health Advisor was appointed for the KRG in 2007. In addition, mental health services in Iraq as a whole have benefited from the support of the current Iraqi Minister of Health, Dr. Salih Al-Hasnawi, who is a psychiatrist by background...
Kristen Welch, M.D. & Riadh Abed, M B Ch B, FRC Psych, DPM
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
The Royal College of Psychiatry – Iraq Sub-Committee
January 2009
Mediating to Prevent Violence Against Women in Iraq
The purpose of this manual is to enhance protections available to victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) by building the capacity and expertise of social workers who mediate to
prevent violence against women.
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
October 2008
Human Trafficking in Iraq: Patterns and Practices in Forced Labor and Sexual Exploitation
Human trafficking in the form of forced prostitution and labor has long existed in Iraq, as has forced marriage and domestic servitude within the family, tribe and community. Since the 2003 invasion and subsequent civil war, Iraq has increasingly been a source of trafficking victims who are transported to neighboring countries, as well as a destination for foreign workers who are at risk of trafficking and come to Iraq from the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh and other countries where poverty is widespread...
Shertzaan Minwalla & Scott Portman
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
May 2007
Research
Heartland Alliance collaborates with Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx; a US-based non-governmental organization), Forum des Activistes Contre la Torture (FACT) Rwanda, the Association of Rwandan Trauma Counselors, and other Rwandan organizations to implement a training, treatment, and research project designed to assist Rwandan women who are HIV+ as a result of genocidal rape. The project researches the effects of psychological trauma on immune system response among HIV+ women.