Month: April 2007
Imagine!
Imagine…Just try to imagine… WE Can Build If We Can Imagine… Imagine a world and a Middle East in peace. A place where all people, regardless of religion, race, class, gender, or ethnicity had a chance to live their lives without any problem! Just for a moment: Picture Iran being a country where we have…
In Raising Awareness
What Do we know about Child Sexual Abuse? What is sexual abuse? How much do we care to know about and to understand the huge issue of child sexual abuse? How is it that no one is taking responsibility for child victims of sexual abuse? How is that we do not admit we have such…
Victim Services
Since year 2000, I have worked and volunteered as a victim service worker for both Police and Community based victim services. This is a position and a profession that is unknown for many in the Iranian community. I will introduce this work to my community in a broader term and I will try to present…
Survival of a Culture
Survival of a Culture, the Iranian culture, depends on us. Who else? Our Iranian community has an outstanding need to talk about many topics. Victimization is a concept we do not know much about, although all of us, nine out of ten of us, have been victims of crime, trauma, sexism, oppression, gender apartheid, racism,…