November 2020: The Carl Lutz Circle organized an online conference in partnership with the CIG, ECUJE (Institut Elie Wiesel, Paris), Payot bookstores and the Yahad in Unum organization.
Father Desbois came to talk about his new book (Les Larmes du Passeur, Ed. du Rocher). Father Desbois is a professor at Georgetown University. He is responsible for the concept of the “Holocaust by bullets” in Eastern Europe. At the same time, he is conducting research on the genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq. Father Desbois has received numerous international awards, including the Human Rights Award from the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice (Washington, D.C.), a member of our Board of Directors.
Adiba Qasim, a Yazidi survivor, works at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Presented as an example by the United Nations Refugee Agency, she was a speaker alongside UN Secretary General Guterres in February 2020.