Ezdina Organization completed the “Hope" project in northeastern Syria, which included an academic and professional work program with the aim of increasing the community’s awareness of the Yazidi identity and promoting rapprochement between the members of religious and national components in the region through respect for pluralism, acceptance of others and rejecting hate speech and violence, within a period of three and a half months.
Three dialogue sessions
The “Hope” project included holding three dialogue sessions, two of them entitled “Discussing Hate Speech and Combating Extremism,” and one under the title “Women are the core of Society Development”. The three sessions were held at the organzation's office in the city of Qamishlo/Qamishli.
The first session was held on September 21 of this year, entitled “Discussing hate speech and combating extremism”, in the presence of a group of representatives from media institutions and civil society organizations, in addition to influential figures in society, while the second session was held on September 28 entitled “Women are the core of Society”, in the presence of a group of activists, while the third session was held on October 22, with the presence of Muslim, Christian and Yazidis clerics and representatives of religious institutions.
Four introductory seminars
Ezdina Organization held four introductory seminars within the “Hope” project under the title “I am a Yazidi, I invite you to get to know me”, The first seminar was held on September 8th, via the “Zoom” program, with the participation of about 65 activists and media professionals and members of the societies of northeastern Syria from the components of the region from the cities of Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasaka, Qamishlo/Qamishli, Kobani and Deir Ezzor.
Ezdina held the third introductory seminar on September 30 in the city of Hasaka, with the participation of about 50 persons from different components of the region, "Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs", activists, media professionals, members of civil society centers and institutions, social figures and representatives of some human rights organizations, in addition to some workers in the field of civil peace in the city of Hasaka, while the fourth seminar was held in the city of Raqqa on October 3 with the participation of about 80 representatives of organizations, initiatives, activists, media, members of civil society centers and institutions, social figures and representatives of some human rights organizations in the city of Raqqa.
Introductory booklet
Ezdina Organization also issued a booklet entitled "I am a Yazidi, I invite you to know me" as part of its activities within its project "Hope" in northeastern Syria, with the aim of introducing the Yazidi religion and its rituals, in addition to introducing the customs and traditions of the people of this religion and their relations with other components and religions.
Around 466 copies of the booklet were distributed to 41 a civil society organization and a media institution operating in the regions of northeastern Syria, in the cities of Qamishlo/Qamishli, Hasaka, Amuda, Raqqa and Kobani.
Draft Law “Hawar-cide”
Ezdina also completed the preparation of a proposed draft of a law to protect the Yazidi religious minority in the Syrian Republic, under the name “Hawar-cide” which includes proposed constitutional articles in the “Hawar-cide” draft of the Syrian Republic’s constitution, in addition to an explanatory historical introduction to the Yazidis in Syria, violations and crimes of genocide, also the rights of Yazidis, their causes, testimonies of the victims, and the presentation of some Syrian constitutions and legal texts concerned with the protection of the Yazidi minority before the start of the Syrian civil war, in addition to the legal texts in the Syrian constitution concerned with the Yezidi minority after 2011 and other laws, and local and international conferences after 2011 concerned with the rights of the Yazidis.
Participants:
The project of Ezdina Organization "Hope" benefited around 245 people directly from those who attended and participated in the introductory seminars and dialogue sessions, among them 139 were males (57%) and 106 were females (43%), in addition to dozens of beneficiaries of the booklet.
The national background of the participants was distributed among: Arab by 57 percent, Kurds by 29 percent, Syriac and Assyrian by 12 percent and Turkmen by 2 percent, while the religious background of the participants was distributed on the Islamic religion by 82 percent, and Yazidism by 15 percent, and Christianity by 13 percent.
Media materials:
Ezdina published 236 media articles about the sessions, seminars and activities of the "Hope" project in both Arabic and English languages, in addition to dozens of media materials published about the project.
Congratulatory messages:
During its "Hope" project in northeastern Syria, Ezdina received 25 video and text congratulatory messages from social, cultural, human rights and media personalities from Syria, Kurdistan region and some European countries on the occasion of the project launch.
It is worth noting that Ezdina opened its headquarters on the first of August in the city of Qamishlo/Qamishli.
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