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Nemam Ghafouri | |
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| Born | 25 December 1968 Chnarok region, (present-day Kurdistan Region), Iraq |
| Died | 1 April 2021 (aged 52) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Education | University of Pécs Umeå University |
| Occupation | Cardiothoracic surgeon |
| Known for | Helping Yazidi victims of ISIS |
Nemam Ghafouri (25 December 1968 – 1 April 2021) was an Iraqi-born Swedish Kurdish medical doctor and practitioner. She was known for helping Yazidi victims of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[1]
Early life
Nemam Ghafouri was born on 25 December 1968 in the Chnarok region of Iraq (now the Kurdistan Region) to Mahmoud Agha Kaka Ziad Ghafouri, a Kurdish resistance commander, and Gulzar Hassan Jalal, who provided resistance fighters with food and ammunition. Ghafouri had 10 siblings and grew up near Tehran and in Naqadeh, in Iran's West Azerbaijan Province. In the 1980s, the family moved to Stockholm as refugees. Ghafouri then studied medicine at the University of Pécs, Hungary, and at Umeå University in northern Sweden, specializing as a cardiothoracic surgeon.[1]
Career
Ghafouri had participated in aid missions in Ethiopia and India. In Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Ghafouri an epidemiological survey on risk factors faced by conflict-zone survivors. She was part of wide-ranging relief efforts, such as missions to Iran to help earthquake survivors. When the ISIL began the exploitation and genocide of Yazidis during the War in Iraq, Ghafouri helped the refugees arriving wounded and traumatized at the border and made it her primary focus to help them. She founded the Joint Help for Kurdistan, an aid organization, and set up a clinic at one of the refugee camps; as of April 2021, thousands of displaced Yazidi families still lived in this camp.[1]
In March 2021, Ghafouri led a mission to reunite twelve children, held in a Kurdish-Syrian orphanage on the Syrian-Iraqi border, with their mothers. The women had given birth to these children while being sexually enslaved by the ISIL fighters. When they returned to Iraq, Yazidi elders had forced them to abandon these children.[2][3][4]
Death
Ghafouri contracted COVID-19 in March 2021, while reuniting twelve Yazidi mothers with their children. She was then shifted to Stockholm, Sweden, for urgent medical attention.[1] She died on 1 April 2021.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b c d Arraf, Jane (7 April 2021). "Nemam Ghafouri, Doctor Who Aided Yazidis in Iraq, Dies at 52". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ Arraf, Jane (12 March 2021). "ISIS Forced Them Into Sexual Slavery. Finally, They've Reunited With Their Children". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "Dr. Nemam Ghafouri, activist who helped Yazidis in Iraq, Syria dead at 52". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "'Hurricane of hope': Kurdish humanitarian Dr. Nemam Ghafouri dies". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kurdish activist Dr. Nemam Ghafouri dies from COVID-19 in Sweden". www.kurdistan24.net. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ Maghribi, Layla (2 April 2021). "Kurdish-Swedish humanitarian Neman Ghafouri dies from Covid-19 in Stockholm". The National. Retrieved 3 April 2021.