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Female Yazidi Genocide Survivors as Agents of Change in International Relations – The Responsibility of the International Community when it comes to Genocide
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Following a 20-minute film screening of the documentary, filmmaker Düzen Tekkal will discuss both the role of female Yazidi genocide survivors as agents of change in international relations and peace processes, as well as the importance of international institutions, such as the United Nations, in punishing crimes against humanity and putting an end to impunity.
In conversation with Natia Navrouzov, Yazidi lawyer and Columbia University Human Rights LL.M. Fellow. Welcome by Professor Daniel Naujoks, director of SIPA's UN studies specialization.
Columbia students, faculty and staff may attend in person; others please join us virtually. Please see the different registration options. A light lunch will be served after the event.
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D├╝zen Tekkal
Düzen Tekkal is a political scientist, social entrepreneur, war correspondent, filmmaker, founder, journalist and author. She is a member of the Expert Commission on the Causes of Flight and an expert on human rights in the Bundestag. For her documentary film Háwar - My Journey into Genocide, she traveled to Iraq several times and documented the genocide of the Yazidis there. Düzen Tekkal learned how to network and empower as a child: growing up with ten siblings in a Kurdish-Yezidish family that fled Turkey in the 1960s. Together with her sisters, she founded the human rights organization HÁWAR.help, with which she has launched various multi-religious and multi-ethnic projects in Iraq and Germany. In 2019, she founded the educational initiative GermanDream to inspire students for the free democratic basic order. In 2021, she received the Federal Cross of Merit from the President of Germany.
Natia Navrouzov
Natia Navrouzov is a Yazidi lawyer and an Obama Foundation European Leader. Prior to joining Columbia University as a Human Rights LL.M. Fellow, she worked in Iraq for four years as the first Legal Advocacy Director of the NGO Yazda.
Under her direction, testimonies of survivors and crime sites have been documented for submission to national and international justice mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, these submissions have helped achieve two convictions of genocide against members of the Islamic State (ISIS) for crimes against Yazidi victims in Germany. She works closely on transitional justice issues in Iraq with the Yazidi Survivors Network, which she helped establish as well as the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability Against Da’esh Crimes (UNITAD), mandated by the United Nations Security Council and the Office of Amal Clooney.
Yazda and the Office of Amal Clooney seek to take to court ISIS militants who have committed crimes of genocide against the Yazidi community and were successful in serval jurisdictions including in Germany, France, and the USA.
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Co-hosted with: United Nations Association, Human Rights & Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Economic and Political Development Concentration, Gender and Public Policy Specialization, International Organization/UN Studies Specialization (OWNER)
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