Mirza Dinnayi

BPUR Ambassador

Mirza Dinnayi is a leading Yezidi Human Rights Activist, a laureate of Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity 2019, the Golden Stauffer-Medaille 2016, the highest Award for extraordinary engagements, granted by the Prime Minister of State Baden-Württemberg, Germany and Recipient of Special Mention of the Human Rights Prize of French Republic.

He is the founder of the German based NGO Air Bridge Iraq, head of the Yezidi Relief Fund to support vulnerable women, children and terror victims and founder of the House of Coexistence in Sinjar, Iraq.

Mirza Dinnayi is a writer, leading speaker and former advisor to the Iraqi President for the Affairs of Non-Muslim Minorities.