Pascal Esho Warda was the Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the
Iraqi Interim GovernmentThe Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
. A Chaldean Catholic and an ethnic
AssyrianThe Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western...
, she was born in 1961 in the Northern Iraqi city of
DahukDuhok is a city in northern Iraq and is the capital of Dahuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has about 241.033 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians...
, but later exiled to
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. There, she attended the
University of LyonThe University of Lyon , located in Lyon, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 16 institutions of higher education...
and received her
MastersA master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in human rights studies. A member of the
Assyrian Democratic MovementThe Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
, she co-founded the Iraqi Society for Human Rights and was the President of the Assyrian Womens Union in
BaghdadBaghdad is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab World....
.
As minister she expressed her support for the death penalty for
Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
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Pascal Esho Warda was the Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the
Iraqi Interim GovernmentThe Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
. A Chaldean Catholic and an ethnic
AssyrianThe Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western...
, she was born in 1961 in the Northern Iraqi city of
DahukDuhok is a city in northern Iraq and is the capital of Dahuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has about 241.033 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians...
, but later exiled to
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. There, she attended the
University of LyonThe University of Lyon , located in Lyon, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 16 institutions of higher education...
and received her
MastersA master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in human rights studies. A member of the
Assyrian Democratic MovementThe Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
, she co-founded the Iraqi Society for Human Rights and was the President of the Assyrian Womens Union in
BaghdadBaghdad is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab World....
.
As minister she expressed her support for the death penalty for
Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
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, for a discussion on global women's issues at the G8 Summit in
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,
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