Iran's Ethno-Religious Minorities under Siege - Dr. Pary Karadagi's introductory remarks

Dr. Pary Karadaghi. Dr. Pary Karadaghi is the Executive Director of Kurdish Human Rights Watch. (KHRW). Dr. Karadaghi is noted for outstanding leadership, particularly regarding refugees and Iraqi women's equality, medical care for families and children, and socially and economically self-sufficient refugees and communities. Under her leadership KHRW's mission is to empower refugees in the United States to become visionary leaders and contributing members of society. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Bucharest School of Medicine, Romania, 1984. She served as a consultant to Georgetown University on Kurdish and Iraqi issues in 1992. She completed post-doctoral studies in Grenoble, France and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Georgetown University in 1989.
Dr. Karadaghi frequently gives presentations on Kurdish and Iraqi people and refugees' plight and future on television news, Public Radio, CNN, Nightline, the Voice of America, and other media. She also gives public lectures and workshops to further educate the public on statelessness, internally displaced persons, and Iraqi, Iranian and Kurdish refugees.
Dr. Karadaghi's many awards include the Top Ten Nationwide Most Resourceful Women Distinction Award (1992), the Tides Foundation Award for Human Rights (1992), the Shaler Adams Award on Human Rights (1993, 1995), the Women of Distinction Award in Human Rights (2001), Leadership Award in NGO Humanitarian Work in Iraq (2003, 2005, 2007) and the Human Rights Award from the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq (2008).

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