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List Of Yazidi Organizations
Yazidi organizations Iraq *Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress *Sinjar Alliance *Protection Force of Sinjar *Sinjar Resistance Units * Êzidxan Women's Units *Asayîşa Êzîdxanê United States of America and Canada *Yazda * Nadia’s Initiative Germany *Yazidi Academy The Yazidi Academy (german: Jesidische Akademie) is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany. The organisation was founded in 2009, it concerns itself with the historical and current situation of the Yazidis. Since ...{{cite web , publisher=Ezidische Akademie , title=About us , url=http://www.ezidische-akademie.de/en/about-us.html , accessdate=4 November 2015 References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidi Movement For Reform And Progress
The Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (, ) is a Yazidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yazidis in the Nineveh Governorate. It has retained one seat in the Council of Representatives since 2005. Election results See also *List of political parties in Iraq The following is a list of political parties in Iraq. Iraq is a multi-party state. Political parties are commonly grouped by ideology/ethnic affiliation and by the group with which they were listed on the ballot of the 2005 Iraqi National Ass ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Yazidi Movement For Reform And Progress Political parties of minorities in Iraq Yazidi organizations in Iraq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinjar Alliance
The Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar ( ku, Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê), known as the Sinjar Alliance ( ku, Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê, i.e. ''Sinjar Joint Command''), is a joint command of two - initially three - Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both of the remaining two militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The alliance was originally created in October 2015, after the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, and included the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPŞ), which in fact provided the largest contingent of fighters (claiming at the time of the operation 5,000 fighters, including about 400 women). However, the Êzîdxan Protection Force, HPŞ left the alliance in early 2017 due to ideological differences with the PKK-backed Sinjar Resistance Units, YBŞ and Êzîdxan Women's Units, YJÊ. The Alliance aims to establish democratic confederalism in a Yazidi autonomous region i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protection Force Of Sinjar
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although the mechanisms for providing protection vary widely, the basic meaning of the term remains the same. This is illustrated by an explanation found in a manual on electrical wiring: Some kind of protection is a characteristic of all life, as living things have evolved at least some protective mechanisms to counter damaging environmental phenomena, such as ultraviolet light. Biological membranes such as bark on trees and skin on animals offer protection from various threats, with skin playing a key role in protecting organisms against pathogens and excessive water loss. Additional structures like scales and hair offer further protection from the elements and from predators, with some animals having features such as spines or camouflage servin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinjar Resistance Units
Sinjar ( ar, سنجار, Sinjār; ku, شنگال, translit=Şingal, syr, ܫܝܓܪ, Shingar) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi. History Antiquity In the 2nd century AD, Sinjar became a military base called Singara and part of the Roman ''limes''. It remained part of the Roman Empire until it was sacked by the Sasanians in 360. Starting in the late 5th century, the mountains around Sinjar became an abode of the Banu Taghlib, an Arab tribe. At the beginning of 6th century, a tribe called Qadišaiē (Kαδίσηνοι), who were of either Kurdish or Arab origin, dwelt there. The Qadišaye practiced idolatry. According to the early Islamic literary sources, Singara had long been a bone of contention between the Sasanian and Byzantine empires and several times switched hands between the two empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asayîşa Êzîdxanê
The Asayish (), officially the Ezidkhan Asayish ( ku, Asayîşa Êzîdxanê, translation=Security Forces of Ezidkhan), are the police force in the regions controlled by the Sinjar Resistance Units, which is backed by the PKK. The force aims to protect the rights of the Yazidi people as well as maintain law and order in the Sinjar District where they are located. It has a training post in Sinjar, where the policemen are trained by senior PKK militants. The force also gets official financial aid from Iraq. The Asayîşa Êzîdxanê are officially not subordinated to the Sinjar Resistance Units and shall attenuate the dependence from institutional powers. The lack of faith in the official powers is a consequence of the escape of Peshmerga-troops in August 2014, which enabled the Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, which overrun the lines of the Peshmerga into the land of the Yazidis. The new-founded force has the aim to create safety in the area controlled by the PKK and Sinjar Resistance Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazda
Yazda: Global Yazidi Organization (, ar, يزدا; ku, 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 northeastern Syria, where the Yazidi community has, as part of a deliberate "military, economic, and political strategy," been the focus of a genocidal campaign by ISIL that included mass murder, the separation of families, forced religious conversions, forced marriages, sexual assault, physical assault, torture, kidnapping, and slavery. History In August 2014, Yazda was founded by a group of Yazidi and Yazidi American activists in the United States centered around Yazidi communities in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Houston, Texas. In addition to education initiatives that explain Yazidi culture and religion, Yazda runs a Yazda's Center in Kurdistan Region, and assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. The museum has an operating budget, as of September 2018, of $120.6 million. In 2008, the museum had a staff of about 400 employees, 125 contractors, 650 volunteers, 91 Holocaust survivors, and 175,000 members. It had local offices in New York City, Boston, Boca Raton, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Since its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 99 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world, and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia's Initiative
Nadia’s Initiative is a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 by Nadia Murad that advocates for survivors of sexual violence and aims to rebuild communities in crisis. The launch of this organization was prompted by the Sinjar massacre, a religious persecution of the Yazidi people in Sinjar, Iraq by ISIS in 2014. History Murad, a survivor of the Sinjar massacre who escaped ISIS capture, created Nadia’s Initiative in January 2018 to "provide long term, holistic approaches to healing traumatized victims of mass atrocities, by developing and supporting field programs in the areas of healthcare, psychosocial support, and education for women and children" and "countering global terrorism through public awareness." In 2017, as part of the goal to counter terrorism, Nadia Murad pressured the United Nations Security Council to launch an investigation into the actions of ISIS against the Yazidi people. The result, UN Resolution 2379, was passed on 21 September 2017 and "authorized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidi Academy
The Yazidi Academy (german: Jesidische Akademie) is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany. The organisation was founded in 2009, it concerns itself with the historical and current situation of the Yazidis. Since then, it has also published the German-language magazine ''Zeitschrift der Ezidischen Akademie. Forum für Diskussionsbeiträge zum Ezidentum''. It also hosts the Yazidi Library that had been established in 2007. The Yazidi Academy is a member of the network of migrants initiatives ''MiSO''. It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers. ezidische-akademie.de See also * |
