Ms Ibrahim at Global Center for Responsibility to Protect
Ms Ibrahim at Global Center for Responsibility to Protect

(Boston) – During a three-week trip to the United States, Ms Pari Ibrahim visited a number of international organisations, churches and a synagogue to discuss the plight of the Ezidi people and garner support for the Free Yezidi Foundation, also speaking at four universities along the way.

Ibrahim founded the Free Yezidi Foundation to provide protection and support to the most vulnerable members of the Ezidi community, beginning with the establishment of an orphanage for Ezidi children whose parents were killed during the attacks and a post-trauma center for the community.

In New York, Ibrahim visited the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, the EMDR institute (post-trauma professionals), two churches, and a synagogue.

Ibrahim discussed the terrorist attacks against other minority communities, including Iraqi Christians, and highlighted the necessity to prevent genocide from ever occurring again in any context. She appealed to community leaders in the United States to support her Foundation and efforts to assist vulnerable minority communities, including the Ezidis.

She also spoke at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Columbia University, Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and Connecticut College.

At university lectures, Ibrahim shared the current situation of Ezidi IDPs and abducted women with students, faculty, and members of the local community, playing a clip of Member of Iraqi Parliament Vian Dakhil’s emotional speech in Baghdad. She also briefed participants on the history and culture of the Ezidi people.

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