Marina Zellner
Bio:
Marina Zellner is an intern at the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights, and master's degree candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
WMC Women Under Siege
September 25, 2017 | Marina Zellner |
Gender-based violence,
Health,
International,
Violence against women
From the frontlines of trauma in Iraq, one clinic’s challenges
In 2014, the so-called Islamic State abducted thousands of women and children when they invaded large parts of Iraq and tortured, enslaved, and killed many people affiliated with the Yazidi religious group. In response, in November 2015, the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights, an Iraq-based organization that helps victims of human rights violations, opened a trauma clinic for women in the Kurdish city of Chamchamal.
