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The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq was founded as a way to advocate for these issues and provide protection for vulnerable and at risk women. To aid women in jeopardy of honor killings, limited employment options, limited access to health [7] or civil protections, [6] and other acts of violence, the organization has developed shelters ...
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe[1]) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest ...
Yazda: Global Yazidi Organization (/ ˈjɑːzdə /, Arabic: يزدا; Kurdish: یەزدا ,Yazda), is a United States-based global Yazidi nonprofit, non-governmental organization (NGO) advocacy, aid, and relief organization. Yazda was established to support the Yazidi, especially in northern Iraq, specifically Sinjar and Nineveh Plain, and ...
The Sinjar massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Şengalê) marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands [14][15][22] of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...
The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO). CIVIC was founded in 2003 by Marla Ruzicka as the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict. [1][2] CIVIC works on behalf of civilians in conflict-zones, providing research and advocating to policymakers. [3][4] CIVIC is a ...
US based NGO, Giving Children Hope, has an ongoing healthcare development program in Iraq that equips hospitals and clinics with needed supplies and equipment in conjunction with the US military. [permanent dead link] However, the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan is quite different. Due to their better stability as well as autonomy, the Kurdistan ...
At the end of July 2007 the NGO Coordinating Committee in Iraq (NCCI) and Oxfam International issued a report, Rising to the Humanitarian Challenge in Iraq, that declared that one-third of the populace was in need of aid. The NCCI is an alliance of approximately 80 international NGOs and 200 Iraqi NGOs, formed in Baghdad in 2003.
Hanaa Edwar was born to a Christian family in the Southern city of Basra, Iraq.She earned a degree in law from Baghdad University in 1967. [1] At age 26, Hanaa Edwar had left for Eastern Berlin to be a representative for the Iraqi Women Association at the International World Federation of Democratic Women. [2]