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Join AMAR on a journey to the Garden of Eden
In 1991, Saddam Hussain’s persecution of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes. As Iraq’s historic marshes were drained and villages attacked, families had no choice but to move.
After a visit to the region, Baroness Emma Nicholson refused to ignore the situation and launched an appeal, ‘Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees’ - to send relief to those who had lost everything.
Today, the AMAR Foundation’s work has evolved and AMAR’s teams are working right the way across Iraq, Lebanon and Romania, ensuring that vulnerable families have access to healthcare, educational services and emergency aid.
They keep the name ‘AMAR’, which translates as ‘the builder’ in some Arabic dialects and this reminds people of their central mission - that AMAR are rebuilding lives!
By reading these two books, you can join Baroness Nicholson and the AMAR Foundation and travel to the Marshlands of Iraq, which are also said to be the biblical Garden of Eden.
'THE MARSH ARABS' BY WILFRED THESIGER
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries.
In 'The Marsh Arabs', Thesiger pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, describes their impressive reed houses, ancient waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife.
'RETURN TO THE MARSHES' BY GAVIN YOUNG
It was the legendary Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq.
Young became entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle was almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians.
'Return to the Marshes' was first published in 1977 and is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life, as well as a love story to a place and its people.
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The beat of a daf, a drum sacred to Yazidis, throbs underneath loud, energetic singing. A dozen young Yazidi women are rehearsing folk songs.
They sing about the dawn, the harvest and the Sinjar mountain the Yazidis consider holy. Please support our IWD appeal for the AMAR Ashti Women’s Choir.
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Rowling is also friends with Baroness Emma Nicholson. They co-funded Children's High Level Group together. Nicholson is a conservative homophobe who is against same sex marriage, she is against lesbians being parents and abortion.
sorry i know nothing of these things. not my business or interest.
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So the woman who co-founded Lumos with JK Rowling is a raging homophobe??
@ Lumos, I want my money back from that dumb pin I bought in 2018. Disgusting.
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The Tories This Week As Explained By The Thick Of It Gifs
The Tories U turning on free school meals because Marcus Rashford made them
Allegra Stratton the new press secretary refusing to deal with Boris Johnson’s aides, only Johnson himself
Someone leaking that information
A Number 10 former advisor saying ‘we are seeing government by leaking’
An inquiry is launched into leaking in the government because of course it fucking is
Brexit still happening and no sign of a trade deal with the EU, President-Elect Joe Biden refusing to do a deal because of the Internal Market Bill and Ireland saying ‘Brexit deal must be struck next week or we have real problems’
The House of Lords shooting down the Internal Market Bill because it breaks international law in a very limited and specific way, but Johnson going ahead with it anyway
Number 10 spin doctor Lee Cain, implicated in the leaking inquiry, is fired
Dominic Cummings said he would step down at the end of the year
The next day, Dominic Cummings announced he would be stepping down with immediate effect as he is also fired
You literally can’t make this shit up, except Armando Iannucci did. If Matt Groening is the US’s prophet, certainly Armando Iannucci is the UK’s.
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CONTENT WARNING; Transphobia, Homophobia, Theocracy, Cultism, Abuse, Rape & Sexual Assault, Sex Work
[1] EssenceOfThought (2019) "When A Feminist Isn’t; Christian AstroTERFing & The Trans Panic", YouTube.com
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://youtu.be/k0GkN0cJAhs
[2] Sofia Lotto Persio (2018) "Anti-trans Group Admits Bathroom Predator Myth Is Made Up", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 22nd May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/12/07/anti-trans-group-bathroom-predator-myth/
[3] Thomas D. Steensma, Roeline Biemond, Fijgje De Boer, And Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis (2011) “Desisting And Persisting Gender Dysphoria After Childhood: A Qualitative Follow-Up Study”, Clinical Child Psychology And Psychiatry, pp.1-18
[4] De Vries, A. L. C., Steensma, T. D., Doreleijers, T. A. H., & Cohen‐Kettenis, P. T. (2011) "Puberty Suppression In Adolescents With Gender Identity Disorder: A Prospective Follow‐Up Study", The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8(8), pp.2276–2283
[5] Vic Parson (2020) "The 'Gender Critical' Feminist Movement is a Cult That Grooms, Controls, and Abuses, According to a Lesbian Who Managed to Escape", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 18th May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/17/terf-gender-critical-feminism-movement-lesbian-cult-amy-dyess-transphobia/
[6] Vic Pasrsons (2020) "These Five Sentences Written by Equalities Minister Liz Truss Have People Very, Very Concerned for the Future of the Equality Act", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/19/liz-truss-equality-act-gender-recognition-trans-rights-baroness-nicholson-marsha-de-cordova/
[7] Vic Parsons "There’s a Simple Truth Trans People Everywhere Want Liz Truss to Know: ‘We Simply Want to Live and Exist Without Being Scared’", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/21/dear-liz-truss-trans-gender-recognition-act-reform-equality-letter-writing-campaign/
[8] Emma Powys Maurice (2020) "Thousands of Cisgender Women Sign Letter Demanding Liz Truss Renounce Her ‘Disturbing’ Attack on Trans Rights", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/22/liz-truss-cisgender-women-trans-ally-open-letter-gender-recognition-act-sex-gender/
[9] Vic Parsons (2020) "One year on since being trans was declassified as a mental disorder, here’s 75 times trans rights took a step backwards", PinkNews.co.uk
Accessed 27th May 2020;
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/26/trans-rights-world-health-organization-gender-identity-disorder-lizz-truss-viktor-orban/
[10] Jamie Wareham (2020) "Trans Rights In Global Recession–One Year After Transgender Removed From WHO List Of Diseases", Forbes.com
Accessed 26th May 2020;
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2020/05/25/trans-rights-in-global-recessionone-year-after-transgender-removed-from-who-list-of-diseases/#219854375d80
[11] LGBT Foundation (2020) "Since the UK Went Into Lockdown...", Twitter.com
Accessed 28th May 2020;
https://twitter.com/LGBTfdn/status/1265583719601111040/photo/1
[12] Kelly Lawrence (2020) "Trauma as Terror; The Cult of ‘Radical’ Feminism", Medium.com
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://medium.com/@klawrencewcf/trauma-as-terror-the-cult-of-radical-feminism-f381df6eb0f5
[13] TED (2016) "The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want | Juno Mac", YouTube.com
Accessed 24th May 2020;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-n852sv3E
[14] EpilepsToday (2017) "Man Who Sent Flashing ‘GIF’ Image on Twitter to Us Political Journalist With Photosensitive Epilepsy Has Been Charged", Epilepsy.org.uk
Accessed 25th May 2020;
https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/news/man-who-sent-flashing-gif-image-twitter-us-political-journalist-photosensitive-epilepsy
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With my hair piled inside a baseball cap, dark sunglasses on and a face mask pulled up to my eyes, I was satisfied I could not be identified.My heart was going ten to the dozen as I prepared to undertake the most daring mission yet: pursuing the illegal activity that has now become a regular part of my life.I tried to position myself to avoid the angle of the CCTV cameras I had clocked and quickly got to work.
After two minutes I was done. Someone spotted me and hurled abuse but, thankfully, they didn't attempt to intervene.
Heading home I felt exhilarated, empowered . . . and proud.
Despite breaking the law, I know I'm not a bad person and I'm definitely not a criminal mastermind or a thug who robs or hurts people. I'm a respectable middle-class, mature woman who spends her spare time 'stickering'.
I'm part of a growing band of women staging our own quiet protests up and down the country, against the erasure of our rights and the threats to our safety.
An example of this threat to safety was made public last week by Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne.
Addressing the House of Lords during a debate on single-sex wards in hospitals, Baroness Nicholson alleged that she knew of a woman who was raped by a transgender patient on a female ward at an NHS hospital.
She stated that, initially, the hospital informed police that the rape could not have happened since there was 'no male' on the ward. It was only a year later, says Baroness Nicholson, that the hospital admitted the offence had taken place.
Legally, rape can only be committed by a penis. Yet between 2012 and 2018, 436 individuals who were prosecuted for rape in England and Wales were recorded as women. Certain single-sex spaces should be protected by law under the Equality Act. But, in practice, it doesn't always happen, with organisations from the NHS (on wards) to M&S (in changing rooms) allowing people to self-identify.
Earlier this month, on International Women's Day no less, the shadow Equalities Minister Annaliese Dodds struggled to define the words 'woman' and 'female' in an interview on Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Dodds' hedging and fudging prompted JK Rowling to respond on Twitter with a reference to her most villainous creation: 'Apparently, under a Labour government, today will become We Who Must Not Be Named Day.' And that's precisely why I do my stickering.
'Stickering' is exactly what it sounds like. It's placing stickers in public places where you hope people will see them, register your protest and, perhaps, want to learn more.
The practice hit the news earlier this year when it emerged that Jennifer Swayne, a women's rights campaigner, was arrested and held in a police cell for putting up stickers and posters in Newport, Gwent.
Her phone has been seized and she is being investigated on suspicion of causing criminal damage and 'displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harm or distress'.
In other words, committing an alleged 'hate crime'.
The story terrified me because some of the stickers Jennifer placed are the same as the ones that I use.
Hers included the messages 'Woman = Adult, Human Female' and 'Are you happy for your 13-year-old daughter to shower next to an adult man? Yes or no'.
Jennifer has been accused of transphobia but insists her protests are not anti-trans, but pro-women. Like me, she is passionate about safeguarding women's rights to single-sex spaces.
More alarming still, while Jennifer was being questioned the police obtained a warrant to search her home. During the search, more protest material was seized along with an academic book about trans-gendering children.
'It was like the Stasi,' she said. And that's exactly why I cannot put my name to this feature. As much as I'd love to out myself as a proud 'sticker sister', it simply wouldn't be safe for me to do so.
Flyposting (placing a sticker or poster on something without the permission of the property owner) is a criminal act. In today's climate, the nature of the stickers I use would be considered transphobic and I'd effectively be 'cancelled'.
I hope to soon write a book (about an entirely unrelated topic) and I know that no publisher would touch me if I was revealed to be a so-called 'TERF' which stands for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist'.
If the police seized my phone, they'd find WhatsApp messages from other women about our stickering missions. I have similar books to Jennifer on my bookshelves at home.
As a journalist I've written about all manner of deeply personal things, from my love life to my finances, but this is something I can't put my name to. Quite simply I'd be toast.
In a nutshell I believe that you cannot change biological sex and it is imperative that we respect single-sex spaces in areas where women may be considered more vulnerable, such as toilets, changing facilities, hospital wards, prisons and centres for women who are the victims of domestic or sexual violence.
That means that I don't believe that trans women (those born biological males, the overwhelming majority of whom remain full male-bodied) should be granted access.
I am categorically not transphobic. I don't dislike trans people or wish them any harm, I just think that keeping women and girls safe is important. I also believe that those born biological males — such as the American swimmer Lia Thomas who is currently smashing records — should not be allowed to compete in women's sport.
A simple glance at the women standing next to Thomas, who towers above them on the podium, shows clearly the physical disadvantages they have.
Sport should be fair, and there's nothing fair about women being forced to compete against individuals they could never possibly beat.
The sickening Sarah Everard murder remains firmly etched on all our minds. At the time, women all over the country took to social media to detail the harassment they suffered or the times they'd felt unsafe in the presence of a man.
I've been flashed three times, I've had my breasts groped on a train and had a violent, pornographic story written about me and posted to my place of work.
Women will always be at risk from dangerous predators and that's a big part of why single-sex spaces exist in the first place.
I believe that allowing biological males access to those spaces is a terrible idea. Yet saying this could get me arrested.
My interest in this topic was piqued after the Karen White scandal. White was a transgender woman prisoner (still an intact male having had no surgery or hormone treatment), who had manipulated her way into a women's prison and assaulted four of the female prisoners.
I once encountered what was clearly a man in a women's lavatory at an airport. The person was a whole foot taller than me, built like a rugby player and eyeballed me, daring me to make a challenge. Too scared to, I simply slunk away. Feeling angrier and angrier, I realised that I had to do something, however small.
I started to do some research and joined two women's campaigning groups that felt like they were a good fit for me. Groups where women's sex-based rights are paramount.
Gaining access was no mean feat. One required me to be vetted and I was only granted full access when I had satisfied the leaders that I wasn't an infiltrator.
The other only accepts personal recommendations and luckily, I have a like-minded friend who proposed me. It sounds extreme, but we know that trans activists work to 'dox' (expose online) feminists they consider transphobic.
Members of both groups include teachers, nurses, other journalists, academics, stay-at-home mums and retired grandmothers. We discuss stories in the news relating to our cause… and we sticker like demons. In the past I've written to MPs and I've signed petitions, but this was something I could do whenever I felt like it.
I visited the Adult Human Female Store (run by fellow activist Kellie-Jay Keen) and purchased £50 worth of stickers in all sizes from the huge range on offer.
My favourites are the ones that state the simple and stark dictionary definition of 'woman' as 'adult human female'. No arguing with that. I also bought ones saying 'single-sex facility' and 'women will not submit'.
Before stickering in public, I started by placing a few around my home, on windows and fridges and doors and then removed them a couple of days later. I wanted to make sure they could be easily lifted and wouldn't damage anyone's property. Suitably reassured, I headed out.
I started with lamp posts and post boxes. Next I moved to public toilets at train stations, in pubs and restaurants where I would put 'single-sex space, women only' stickers on mirrors and loo doors. I've stickered the windows of two shops: Lush and the Body Shop.
I also place them on seat trays on trains and on the backs of cinema seats. Last year, I pretended I was interested in joining several gyms local to me just so I could gain access to the changing rooms and sticker there. If my stickers make women feel like there are others out there who have their backs then I'm pleased.
We proudly take photos of our stickering and post them in our groups online.
'Two petrol pumps, six supermarket trollies, one gym and three ladies' loos,' wrote one fellow protestor (a 60-something accountant) this week about her own tally.
We support those who are facing challenging situations at work (particularly those in the teaching and health professions) who are expected to attend regular workshops and refrain from using gender-specific language.
We write notes of support to women who are being unfairly targeted for their beliefs and send them flowers and gifts.
Back to my most daring stickering mission, which I undertook last October. It was at the time that Professor Kathleen Stock was being hounded out of her job at Sussex University. A gender critical feminist, she was accused of being transphobic.
One of her supposed crimes is to believe that single-sex spaces need to be protected.
The tunnel that led from the train station to the university had become littered with stickers calling for her dismissal and labelling her a bigot. I wanted to redress the balance. And so, dressed in my disguise, I travelled miles out of my way to place my stickers.
Someone (a student I assumed) called me a 'f*****g terf' but did not approach me. Like some sort of sticker ninja, I reckon I posted around 60 in two minutes.
One of my friends once pointed out that the suffragettes started with quiet protests and then built up to acts of terrorism, and asked whether I was afraid things would go the same way in my groups.
Absolutely not. We all have jobs and families that we do not want to lose. We want to protect our rights and help one another along the way.
You only have to look around at how many threads there are around gender identity and the safeguarding of women on Mumsnet to know just how mainstream the issue has become.
Last year, it came to light that a victim of sexual abuse and rape was forced to leave her group therapy sessions when a trans woman, 'with no obvious female attributes', had been granted access to it.
It's stories such as these that make me realise that I am prepared to keep stickering and risk the consequences. I know all the other women in my group are too.
Grace York is a pseudonym
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AMAR are saving the lives of future generations. Will you help?
If you work in healthcare, then you'll want to read this! People talk about conflict and displacement, reconstruction and development but how often do we hear them talk about the right to give birth in a safe environment?
Life-altering moments like conflict is stressful for women and their partners, and this can trigger a period of poor mental health or lead to a worsening of existing mental health conditions. This is why providing care for women and their babies is vital to the greater well-being of society.
Fleeing a conflict is traumatic but having to escape whilst carrying an unborn child adds further stress to this. Almost one in five women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth, the UN's health agency said last year.
The AMAR International Charitable Foundation assists mothers and children as the most underserved group of all displaced people. AMAR provides specialised care for the under-fives and ensures that all of its healthcare projects target pregnant women, mothers and children.
AMAR’s Primary Healthcare Centre's also have designated mother and child doctors, to allow female patients the comfort of speaking with a doctor of the same sex, where women can be open to discuss issues like puberty, reproduction and childcare.
In locations where women face isolation, AMAR’s mobile health clinics travel to those area's and delivers primary health care services. These clinics visit communities on a regular basis and provide check-ups, vaccinations, food supplements and support, if further treatment is required.
The AMAR Foundation was founded in 1991 by Baroness Emma Nicholson. Since then, AMAR has earned itself a solid reputation in the provision of healthcare services to people experiencing displacement as a consequence of war.
Please send your questions to @AMARLondon on Twitter or call 0207 799 2217 for more information. You can also make a donation to AMAR’s work by clicking here.
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There's a reason why the AMAR International Charitable Foundation pride themselves on rebuilding lives. Founded in 1991 by Baroness Emma Nicholson, AMAR's focus has always been on the needs of people.
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A Yazidi girl waits to greet Baroness Emma Nicholson in a t-shirt protesting against genocide
THE systematic rape of hundreds of women and children rounded up by IS to be bought and sold has been likened to the Holocaust.
The victims, from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, are subjected to the most vile abuse by their captors.
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, who sits in the House of Lords, compares…
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Where words fail, music speaks
This is the Ashti (Peace) Choir, founded and led by Rana Sulaiman Halo. She has lived in the Khanke refugee camp in Iraq since 2014, and comes from a family of musicians.
As Alice Fordham reported for NPR, with its dirt roads and dwellings, the camp can be a bleak place. But the beat of a daf, a drum sacred to Yazidis, throbs underneath loud, energetic singing.
A dozen young Yazidi women are rehearsing folk songs. They sing about the dawn, the harvest and the Sinjar mountain the Yazidis consider holy. Sometimes their voices harmonize gently, sometimes they rise almost to a shout as the women chant.
In 2019, Rana founded the Ashti Choir, which is supported by the AMAR Foundation, a British based charity. Several women in the choir were ISIS captives and others have lost family members.
"This folk music, it's also a kind of affiliation of our religion," says Mamou Othman, who studies music as psychotherapy at the University of Dohuk. "There are special songs that only the Yazidis sing."
The choir has performed in the U.K and AMAR has also recorded Yazidi folk songs and sacred religious music, and given these recordings to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library to archive for future generations.
For further information on AMAR’s work with the Yazidi community, please contact the AMAR Foundation by e-mail or call 0207 799 2217. You can also make a donation to the Yazidi choir through the AMAR Foundation.
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Help hit a high note for AMAR this Christmas
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is caused by highly stressful, frightening or distressing events. Someone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.
A person may also have problems sleeping and find concentrating difficult. These symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life. PTSD can develop immediately after a traumatic event, or it can occur weeks, months or even years later.
The psychological and emotional scars of war in Iraq are immense, with thousands of people needing mental health assistance. Among those in desperate need of care, are people suffering PTSD, depression, schizophrenia and severe anxiety.
In 2014, thousands of children from religious minorities in northern Iraq were captured by ISIS. Since the military defeat of the group, some of these children have returned. They have been left traumatized by their experiences but face a host of challenges in accessing effective treatment and rehabilitation.
The psychological well-being of men, women and children across Iraq is our concern. This is why Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra) supports the AMAR Foundation's Yazidi Choir Christmas Appeal. We also welcome the opportunity to talk about our support for AMAR's work providing mental health care in Iraq, which can be equally debilitating as any other injury, if left untreated.
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Resisting genocide, facing the impossible in Iraq
Back in 2016, Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad came to the UK where she met the AMAR Foundation’s chair Baroness Emma Nicholson and Baroness Anelay of the UK’s Foreign Office, to discuss the plight of Iraq’s Yazidi women.
As Baroness Nicholson stated; “What happened to Nadia and the thousands of other poor Yazidi women was absolutely shocking. Now, the world is finally waking up to the enormity of the crimes perpetrated against them. It is a Genocide. The sheer murderous brutality of the vile Daesh is almost beyond words.”
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS.
In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use.
Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Eastern Turkey.
“Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.” Last Girl is the remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a young Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world in the ongoing fight against ISIS.
Ian Birrell of The Times has said: “The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi’s have suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, a fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil.”
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The British Baroness and AMAR's bold vision for the future
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There's a reason why the AMAR International Charitable Foundation pride themselves on rebuilding lives. Founded in 1991 by Baroness Emma Nicholson, AMAR's focus has always been on the needs of people.
When watching this video, it's almost impossible to imagine that ten years ago, over one million children were displaced when IS invaded large parts of Iraq. This video also shows how much things have changed since 2014.
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