MESOP : KURDISH YEZIDI Vian Dakhil wins Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights

10 June 2015 – Shafaq News / MP of Kurdistan Alliance in the Iraqi parliament , Vian Dakhil has received Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights for 2015 in the Austrian capital Vienna.

Vien received the award at a ceremony attended by the elite of high political figures and activists in the field of human rights and representatives of organizations concerned with this matter, in addition to the Iraqi ambassador and a number of the Iraqi community in Austria.Dakhil said in a speech at the ceremony, according to a statement of her office received by Shafaq News, that the award is as honor and she feels joy and pride, but the real joy is by helping every human being exposed to injustice and save human , especially women from slavery from the grip of the extremist terrorist organizations.

Dakhil confirmed that she will continue to defend human rights in general, especially all rights of the Iraqi national, religious and sectarian affiliations without any discrimination. The award was handed over to Deputy , Vian Dakhil by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bruno Kreisky Foundation. It is worth mentioning that Kreisky Foundation offers its prize for activists in defense of human rights once every two years.

Dakhil is a Kurdish Yazidis, won last October Anna Politkovskaya award for women in conflict zones in 2014 for claiming to protect refugees and Yezidis and trapped in Sjnar by ISIS. She attracted the attention of the world in August when she urged the Iraqi government to save the Yezidis community from the persecution of Islamist militants and asked Parliament to provide assistance, and said that 30 thousand families are trapped in Mount Sinjar without food or water.Shortly thereafter , Dakhil’s plane crashed which was carrying relief supplies to the region as she survived the crash with a broken leg while the pilot was killed in the incident.