State Department Officials and Representatives of Allied Nations Participate in Launch of www.universalrights.org
Universal Rights Education Portal Launched in Connection with A Call for Trials to Prosecute Atrocities Committed by ISIS
WASHINGTON, DC – (December 9, 2020) – On the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, Good of All, a non-profit education organization promoting universal rights, held a virtual press briefing today to call for trials to prosecute acts of genocide and other human rights atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. A new online human rights education portal with videos featuring the stories of the ISIS rape, enslavement, and genocide was also launched.
Who:
- Ambassador at Large Morse H. Tan, Office of Global Criminal Justice, US Department of State
- Ambassador at Large Kelley Currie, Office for Global Women’s Issues, US Department of State
- Ambassador Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States
- Commissioner Nadine Maenza, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
- Matthew Daniels, JD, PhD, Founder, Good of All
- Jacqueline Isaac, Vice President, Roads of Success
- State Secretary Tristan Azbej, State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program, Prime Minister’s Office – Hungary
- Father Waldemar Cislo, Director, Polish Section of the Foundation for Aid to the Church in Need
- Senior Official Bedran Ciya Kurd, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
What: A call for trials to prosecute acts of genocide and other human rights atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. A new Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) educational portal with videos featuring the stories of the torture, rape, sexual enslavement, and mass murder victims of ISIS’ genocide will also be launched.
When: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 9:00 – 10:00am ET, International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
Where: Universal Rights Academy: https://www.universalrights.org/
Why: In the past decade, the most egregious violation of the fundamental human rights enshrined in the UDHR has been the genocide committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. ISIS genocide has targeted multiple ethnic and religious minority groups and has been accompanied by other atrocities, such as mass rape and sexual enslavement of women and children.
On the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, we will use the occasion of the launch www.universalrights.org to issue a renewed call for trials of captured ISIS fighters – whether before a single court or the national courts of the countries whose fighters are currently in custody and with whom the United States is negotiating to take them back and put them on trial. In either case, the goal is to hold all ISIS members in captivity accountable for their crimes against humanity.
