Community Leaderships Discuss Mechanisms to Prohibit Sex – Slavery and Violating Minority Lands
Three workshops on the mechanisms of banning “sex slavery and violating the lands of minority groups to enhance peaceful coexistence” were simultaneously conducted in Erbil, Sulaymaniya and Duhok with the participation of representatives of the coexisting communities in the liberated areas from Daesh (ISIS), and the areas to which the fled. In addition, there were representatives from various media outlets. These workshops come in the context of launching a media campaign entitled “Towards Building the Future, Assisting Religious and Ethnic Groups to Reorganize Post-Daesh Life.”Sulaymaniya workshop witnessed the participation of 25 figures from different religions and races in the objective discussion of the message of the campaign, included in the documentary film “Bridges of Trust” produced by MASARAT Institution for Cultural and Media Development in partnership with Heatland Alliance International, in which clerics discuss a moderate Islamic vision for diversity and rights of minority groups. On the same context, a group of 20 figures participated in the exchange of opinions regarding the same message in Erbil, whereas 27 participants did the same message in Duhok.Participants of the three workshops reached at a bundle of recommendations, such as uniting efforts among media people, clergymen and community leaderships for the sake of restoring normal life to the areas of coexistence of diverse components, and collaborating among different religions and sects to solve the problems that create some concerns of minorities from each other.These workshops were moderated by Dr. Saad Saloom, General Coordinator of MASARAT; Dr. Amina Al-Dhahabi, Executive Manager of MASARAT; Anthropologist Ahmed Al-Mubarga; Dr. Abdulrahan Darwish and Yazidi civil activist Uday Kruz.
