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Yazda's center in Iraq functions as a local non-governmental organization (NGO). [12] Yazda sponsored multiple online petitions to focus on helping captured and enslaved Yazidi women. [9] [13] Activists working with Yazda asked U.S. President Barack Obama to help the women and girls still held captive. [14]
DanChurchAid (Folkekirkens Nødhjælp) is one of the major Danish humanitarian non governmental organisations (NGO), working with churches and non-religious civil organizations to assist the poor with dignity. DCA mine action is currently involved in comprehensive mine action programmes in Ukraine, Lebanon, South Sudan and Iraq.
Christian Peacemaker Teams News on Nonviolence.org – a regularly updated page with links to news and articles about the crisis. Free The Captives – petition for the release of Christian Peacemakers being held in Iraq – includes latest news and daily updates 'Brothers of hostage in Iraq describe "gut-wrenching" wait', CBC News, December 11 ...
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.
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 ...
Spirit of America was founded in 2003 by Los Angeles based venture capitalist, Jim Hake, who in the wake of the September 11th attacks sought to directly support conventional military and special operation teams performing reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. [7]
Since Iraq is under Sharia law those who commit honor killings are rarely punished. [17] In 1990 the party in charge of the northern Kurdish section in Iraq was actively participating in these honor killings. Southern Iraqi law enforcement claims that they are powerless to monitor and prevent honor killings. [18]
Latif joined the women's rights movement in Kurdistan in 2000. In 2002, she founded the first women's protection shelter providing refuge to victims of gender based violence and honor killing. She was appointed as the Director for Asuda, the first independent NGO to focus on violence against women in Iraq based in the city of Sulaymaniyah.