- Mrs. Warda: Iraq is rich of genuine Religion and Ethnicity, and all population components must enjoy equal rights
University of Cambridge / Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, hosted on October 4, 2018 Mrs. Pascale Warda, Chairwoman of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, former minister of Migration and Displaced, member of Iraqi Women's Network, who delivered a lecture on minority status in Iraq, migration and return.
Mrs. Warda also talked about the status of Iraqi women at present, stressing that the presence of minorities in Iraq is threatened with extinction as they suffered and continues to suffer from bloody targets amounted to the extent of the practices of genocide against these Iraqi components, especially what was carried out by the criminals of the so-called Islamic state and the pressures and attacks, it was not, unfortunately, new but also in the case of deliberate and multiple repetitions.
Mrs. Warda talked briefly on the history of the mass massacres, especially against Yazidis and Christians (Syriac Chaldeans, Assyrians and Armenians). Thus, the effects of these massacres can be removed only through genuine justice and the abolition of policies based on contempt of the other.
What we need in Iraq is that to be a culture based on national civic values and that there should be no influence on any component on other components. In other words, equal rights prevail regardless of the diversity of religion or ethnic origins.
Students and other participants expressed interest in the subject and admiration for the field work carried out by Hammurabi organization in cooperation with a number organizations and other bodies.
This session was Chaired by Dr. Nawras Atto, a Syriac Orthodox of Middle Eastern origins in south east of Turkey (Turaabadin), she has lived in the conditions of migration and has done much research on Christian migration from the Middle East and is currently working at Cambridge University supervising important research at the College of Asian and Middle East Studies and currently director of research on migration on the Project of RESPOND Horizon 2020 particularly focusing on the relationship between Assyrian and Yazidi immigrants in the West and those remaining in the Middle East with regard to future perspectives and their survival.
It is certain that Hammurabi Human Rights Organization will continue to implement the part of Iraq within this broad project and in cooperation with Dr. Atto in Cambridge University, and Iraq will be involved in this international achievement, which has been distributed to many universities and institutes and serious international institutions including Hammurabi Human Rights Organization.
