...is on her way to Kurdistan, the northern autonomous province of Iraq, to a refugee camp outside the city of Dohuk. Last year Claire worked with MedGlobal in Bangladesh, running one of the health clinics in a camp for the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Over the past several years there has been a great influx into Kurdistan of Syrians displaced by the war, Christian Iraqis targeted by ISIS, ...whose girls and women were routinely kidnapped by ISIS militants and cruelly enslaved (See post from 8/18/2015, "Question It!"). Observing the obligation of nations to grant asylum to refugees that has been considered international law and the law of humanity since ancient times, Kurdistan has set up a number of camps outside the city of Dohuk to accommodate these refugees and provide humanitarian aid, ...and it is in one of these camps that Claire will be providing healthcare with other MedGlobal workers for the next two weeks. Prayers are always appreciated, for Claire, her fellow aid workers, References:
https://www.medglobal.org/kurdistanofiraq?fbclid=IwAR25UVwbTgklEjaJffTdMzUFq7IHv5925xYvgaVKwf6w3RPM4kI9EDSf4PU https://www.iraqinews.com/features/dohuk-received-3000-refugees-recent-kurdish-iraqi-encounters/ https://www.medglobal.org/histormedglobal/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum
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4/4/2019 05:11:49 pm
Thanks, Patti, for sharing the amazing work that Claire is doing!
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Patti
4/5/2019 07:12:07 am
Thanks, Linda.
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