📢 Campaigns & Global Advocacy Portfolio
Welcome to the Defend International (DI) Mobilization Hub.
Since our founding, Defend International has launched, supported, and sustained cross-border campaigns to protect human dignity, shape international security policies, and counter systemic atrocities. Our advocacy bridges high-level diplomacy at the United Nations with direct, rapid-response field interventions to protect marginalized populations in real time.
Below is the structured registry of our major global campaigns, urgent appeals, and strategic mobilizations. Click on any initiative to access our full historical documentation, baseline data, and archive reports:
🕊️ 1. Disarmament, Gun Safety, & Environmental
Action
- Gun Free Valentine Campaign
As an active partner of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), DI mobilizes global networks annually between Valentine’s Day and International Women’s Day to counter gun violence and armed domestic abuse.
- Towards Clean Cooking Solutions in the MENA Region
An active cross-border initiative in partnership with the United Nations Foundation to deploy sustainable energy assets, safeguard public health, and empower women.
- Fostering Climate Action at the Human Level
Our strategic Euro-Med framework empowering everyday citizens to act as direct stakeholders in local environmental safety, climate mitigation, and resource security.
🛡️ 2. Atrocity Prevention, Minorities, & Cultural Rights
- Save the Yazidis: The World Has to Act Now
Our global mobilization and legal documentation tracking launched during the 2014 Sinjar crises, demanding immediate state protection and international genocide recognition.
- Save Free World: Ensuring Civilian Security
Launched by Defend International to confront evolving threats to global public safety, this security campaign advocates for proactive counter-terrorism frameworks to prevent attacks on civilian populations. Grounded in a philosophy of shared humanitarian responsibility, the initiative calls on governments to evaluate national security threats and monitor religious and educational centers to ensure they fulfill their vital role in minority integration rather than being leveraged for political radicalization.
- Dr. Widad Welcomes Opening of First Armenian Church in Erbil
Direct cultural advocacy celebrating minority preservation, religious freedoms, and gender-inclusive community integration in post-crisis regions.
- Defending the Rights of Protesters in Iran
High-level civil mobilizations and legal appeals backing civil rights movements, calling for the definitive abolition of the death penalty, and protecting activists from state execution.
- Syria: Immediate Release of Kidnapped Church Leaders
International diplomatic tracking and legal petitions demanding the safe return of targeted community and religious leaders held in conflict boundaries.
⚖️ 3. Combating Hate, Anti-Semitism, & Systemic
Torture
- Condemning Anti-Semitism and All Forms of Hatred
Dr. Widad Akreyi’s global addresses anchoring DI’s strict stance on absolute impartiality, building inter-faith solidarity, and countering systemic discrimination.
- Campaign for the Universal Abolition of the Death Sentence
Strategic legal advocacy leveraging the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR to completely erase institutional state executions worldwide.
🌍 4. Eradicating Gender Violence & Human
Trafficking
- Defend International Calls for a Definitive End to FGM
Our frontline medical and legal campaign combating Female Genital Mutilation through community health diplomacy, legislative lobbying, and protective monitoring.
- 1st UN World Day Against Human Trafficking
Our flagship mobilization framework coordinating cross-border networks to eradicate modern-day slavery, protect forced laborers, and disrupt tracking corridors.