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1. I would like to share something that is personally important. Some background on the suffering of the raped and tortured Yazidi girls and this thread that gives hope and is full of goodness https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2020/10/16/separation-from-my-children-was-more-painful-than
2. You may know of the times @Baroness_Nichol went to Iraq; sometimes in disguise as a medic to avoid capture by IsIs. Almost half of the country’s 3.3 million internally displaced are under the age of 18. They witnessed deeply traumatic scenes such as mass executions and rape.
3.The story of why she went to Iraq dozens of times is here http://religiousfreedomandbusiness.org/iraq-britain-b … - tobring their plight to Westminster and get them money from Strasbourg. Another sad thing of the Yazidi cultural obliteration is that they almost lost their music.But today their music is here
4. (Baroness is the founder and Chairman of @AMARLondon - started in 1991 in response to Saddam Hussein’s systematic persecution and extermination of the Marsh Arabs, and it has now grown to become one of the leading charities in the Middle East)
5. So it means a lot to share the Yazidi girls choir in their Christmas message of light overcoming darkness. - the girls still live in a camp they didn’t get home yet. So do share & support them if you can.
6. More here. Because women and girls cannot identify out of our sex based oppression but it takes more than ISIS to extinguish culture and heritage and their brave determination. Thank you.
My profile is open a little while to support these women. Happy Christmas to them, to the woman that it is a deep privilege to know @Baroness_Nichol and I wish the continued success of @AMARLondon
