Haider Elias

Yazda is a global community-led institution that protects and champions all religious and ethnic minority communities, including Assyrians, Chaldeans, Kakais, Shabaks, Yazidis, and others in Iraq, Kurdistan Region, and Syria. Founded in 2014 at the onset of the genocide perpetuated by the Islamic State Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and Da'esh against the Yazidis, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity against other minorities, Yazda leads advocacy and strategic projects in Dohuk, Sinjar, and the Nineveh Plains (Iraq), as well as global diaspora hubs.