Profile of Widad Akreyi, Iraqi human rights defender

November 5, 2019

Dr. Widad Akreyi at the award ceremony for the 2018 International Woman Harmony Award, Cortona, Italy, Nov. 23, 2018.

On 12 June 2019 Marta Bellingreri (an Italian writer, Arabist and cultural mediator. is the author of two books about Lampedusa and minor migrants in Tunisia, France and Italy) wrote a profile of Dr. Widad Akreyi, who lived through the 1980s Anfal genocide and the 2014 Yazidi genocide, and has become one of the major defenders of human rights in Iraq and beyond.

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https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/iraqs-human-rights-fighter-marked-by-genocide-memories.html

This entry was posted on November 5, 2019 at 20:53 and is filed under human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

Tags: Al-Monitor, genocide, Human Rights Defenders, International Woman Harmony Award, Iraq, Italy, Marta Bellingreri, profile, Widad Akreyi, woman human rights defender, Yazidi

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