Mediating to Prevent Violence Against Women in Iraqi IDP Camps

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“I wanted to finish school and live the American Dream,” says Chenge, an immigrant from Zimbabwe who fled his home country to escape torture. “There’s a lot of worry when you don’t know if you can stay in this safe place and stabilize your life.” Heartland Alliance helped him gain asylum, obtain a visa, prepare for and find a job, and integrate into American culture.

In Northern Iraq, in collaboration with Mercy Corps, Heartland Alliance is working on a project to reduce gender-based violence in communities of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kirkuk, particularly concerning forms of gender-based violence linked with displacement, such as sex trafficking. The project is selecting women from the IDP camps and training them to conduct gender-focused mediation themselves, or to offer referrals in cases that require legal representation or more experienced mediators. The project also reaches out to the IDP community in Kirkuk with information about women's rights, and is training mediators to give presentations to their communities on women's legal rights in marriage and divorce.

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