A Demand For Action

A Demand For Action (ADFA): From a Social Media Campaign to an International Human Rights Advocacy Group and Aid Organization

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac parties rallied in Duhok (Nohadra), demanding authorities enforce long ignored court rulings ordering the return of ancestral lands. Read full statement on our Facebook page.

[IRF Summit @IRFSummit]

#IRFSummitNorthAfrica kicks off in just a few weeks!

We are excited to welcome religious freedom advocates, scholars, local leaders, and faith communities to Africa's biggest interfaith religious freedom event.

So why North Africa?

❌ Egypt continues to leverage restrictions on religious minorities, blasphemy prosecutions, and persecution against Coptic Christians, Baha'is, and others.
❌ Ahmadi Muslims and protestant Christians continue to face church closures and restrictions in Algeria.
❌ In Tunisia, constant pressure on religious minorities on issues surrounding conversion and apostasy.

... among other #FoRB issues, which will be discussed.

Learn more at https://t.co/NAaPvwdbYH!

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Vea este breve video en español con subtítulos en inglés. Por favor, compártalo y ayúdenos a encontrar una empresa de transporte y logística para esta misión humanitaria. #Venezuela

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

"The future for Christians in Iraq is uncertain." @JoelVeldkamp of @CSI_humanrights during a briefing at the European Parliament. At ADFA, we will continue documenting atrocities and making sure Iraq's indigenous Christian communities are not forgotten.

[Nadine Maenza @nadinemaenza]

Heartbreaking attack at Damascus cafe near the Justice Palace. At least 9 people were killed & 20 injured, most reportedly lawyers & professionals working to rebuild Syria after years of war.

Please keep the people of Syria in your prayers.
https://t.co/Ox6Ee0cTxM

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

U.S. Senate committee backs proposal to tie future cooperation with Syria to the protection of minorities. @SenTedBuddNC @USCIRF @IRFSummit Read the full story on our Facebook: https://t.co/iLGdu6skFz

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Today, June 28

1,430 people have lost their lives.
3,300 have been injured.
50,000 remain missing.

Over the past few days, ADFA has been in contact with local organizations and churches. We have heard heartbreaking stories of unimaginable tragedy, but also of extraordinary acts of courage and compassion that give hope.

Sadly, the situation in Venezuela has not received the attention it deserves.

Please consider donating to any organization you trust and are able to support. Here are a few suggestions:

Caritas Venezuela – https://t.co/XlEHYcBEvV
We Love Foundation – https://t.co/Wl6JYuhYEx
Direct Relief – https://t.co/KOlCfSZrFD

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Swedish and English translation of Suroyo TV's report.

Journalist and human rights defender @KinoNuri — founder of A Demand For Action, is a finalist for Individual Changemaker of the Year at the Global Good Awards 2026.

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

”We traveled across Syria. What we found should concern the world — and you”, a powerful report by Daniel Allott and Jordan Allott. @dcexaminer
https://t.co/DeDsuKu7J6

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

@KinoNuri is a finalist for the Global Good Awards 2026, named Individual Changemaker of the Year by an international jury for building "a chain of humanity." One of only seven finalists worldwide.
https://t.co/w34kjvgX2M

[Open Doors UK @OpenDoorsUK]

Parents continue to ask for your fervent prayers for their children kidnapped on 15 May in Borno and Oyo States, Nigeria. Little word has arisen concerning the whereabouts of their infants.

Currently, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack in Borno State. As for Oyo State, the perpetrators have demanded that Islamic law be implemented in the state and a ransom delivered for the abducted children.

“I was on my farm when I heard the gunshots. By the time I got home, they were gone. Some students saw the bandits in military uniforms and thought they were safe. That’s how they were taken. We’ve heard nothing since," says one parent. “Parents are fainting from shock and grief. It’s hard to describe how sad I am feeling right now, we just need your prayers. Please fast and pray for the safe return of our children.”

Please continue to pray for the communities ravaged by these recent attacks, as well as other church communities who have been made victims of kidnappings.

If you haven't already, please take this moment to sign and share the Arise Africa petition and raise your voice for our brothers and sisters suffering violence and injustice in sub-Saharan Africa. Thank you. https://t.co/fxG0YXFpG5

[Open Doors UK @OpenDoorsUK]

Last June, a suicide bomb attack on Mars Elias Church in Syria killed at least 22 people – including Elias’s two brothers who, along with another man, tried to tackle the bomber.

For Elias and his family, fear remains, but so does faith – and they are even willing to keep worshipping at the site of the tragedy. However, like so many Christians in Syria, they might have to leave because of conflict and persecution.

Discover how you can help strengthen what remains: https://t.co/VTB3jgVYdy

[Open Doors Sverige @OpenDoorsSE]

FN-EXPERT: KRISTNA KVINNOR UTSATTA I NORRA NIGERIA

FN-experter går nu ut och varnar för situationen i norra Nigeria, där flickor och kvinnor från kristna och andra religiösa minoritetsgrupper utsätts för flera brott mot mänskliga rättigheter.

Läs mer: https://t.co/50XE6MNzF0

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

We know this is a small effort. We also know it can seem unexpected that we are helping children in Sweden, one of the wealthier countries in the world.

This photo was taken in Skärholmen, just outside Stockholm, at an athletics session we helped make possible. The rain came down hard that afternoon. The children came anyway.

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

SEYFO WE REMEMBER WE FIGHT WE CONTINUE
In 1915, Seyfo began. It was a genocide carried out against Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans, Armenians, and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. Nearly two million people were killed or driven from their ancestral lands. The impact did not end there. It still shapes lives today.
For more than a century, the struggle has been about truth and recognition. Many of us in ADFA are descendants of survivors. This history is not distant. It is part of who we are.
Since 2014, ADFA has worked to bring this history into the open. Through documentation, advocacy, and engagement with policymakers, we have helped push for recognition at the highest levels, including in the United States Government and other international institutions.
That recognition matters. But it is not enough.
In 2014, the same communities were targeted again. The intent was the same: to erase a people, their faith, and their history.
This is why the work continues. We document. We advocate. We push for accountability. We stand with our people, wherever they are and whatever name they use.
Seyfo is not only the past. It is part of the present.
#ArmenianGenocide #greekgenocide #seyfo

[Nadine Maenza @nadinemaenza]

8 years after her abduction, Leah Sharibu remains in captivity because she refused to renounce her Christian faith.

Her story is not isolated. Across Nigeria, women and girls continue to face abduction, forced marriage, sexual violence, and coercion by extremist groups with far too little accountability.

The world cannot look away. #Voices4Justice

My latest for @dcexaminer:
https://t.co/3hocrqcqxj

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Facing Forced Deportation from Sweden After Fleeing Genocide

ADFA's @KinoNuri, who attended the graduation ceremony in Skövde, the Swedish city where Matyas and his family live, wrote the following on social media:

"Waseem and his younger brother Matyas are facing deportation from Sweden.

Those of you who follow ADFA's work, and mine, know that they fled genocide in Iraq more than a decade ago. Last December, they were arrested by the Swedish Border Police and held in a detention centre for four months.

When they were released, Matyas managed, against all odds, to graduate from high school. But now he is being forced to leave the country.

He and Waseem could be detained again at any moment and placed on a plane to Iraq. Because of the conflict in the Middle East, flights are currently not operating. That could change quickly.
I have been thinking back on the hundreds of asylum cases I have been involved in. In the early 2000s, many unaccompanied children disappeared. Some were abused by paedophiles, including at one of the Swedish Migration Agency's facilities. In 2010, I wrote a letter to the CEOs of Sveriges Radio, Sweden's public broadcaster. I gave up assignments as an investigative journalist in order to hide refugees. I warned that a genocide was coming. Refugees were being forcibly deported there. Tragically, I was proven right, and that was where my journey as an activist began.

So no, the asylum chaos is nothing new. It has always been a lottery, and the system must be rebuilt from the ground up. Now, the current government, like every government before it, has made a grave miscalculation.

The exemption intended to stop the deportation of teenagers is affecting the wrong people. I hope that one of the ministers, or one of their civil servants, finds a calculator before Waseem and Matyas are deported.

In the meantime, we are frantically searching for a way forward for them — perhaps in Canada."

[A Demand For Action @DemandForAction]

Facing Forced Deportation from Sweden After Fleeing Genocide

ADFA's @KinoNuri, who attended the graduation ceremony in Skövde, the Swedish city where Matyas and his family live, wrote the following on social media:

"Waseem and his younger brother Matyas are facing deportation from Sweden.

Those of you who follow ADFA's work, and mine, know that they fled genocide in Iraq more than a decade ago. Last December, they were arrested by the Swedish Border Police and held in a detention centre for four months.

When they were released, Matyas managed, against all odds, to graduate from high school. But now he is being forced to leave the country.

He and Waseem could be detained again at any moment and placed on a plane to Iraq. Because of the conflict in the Middle East, flights are currently not operating. That could change quickly.
I have been thinking back on the hundreds of asylum cases I have been involved in. In the early 2000s, many unaccompanied children disappeared. Some were abused by paedophiles, including at one of the Swedish Migration Agency's facilities. In 2010, I wrote a letter to the CEOs of Sveriges Radio, Sweden's public broadcaster. I gave up assignments as an investigative journalist in order to hide refugees. I warned that a genocide was coming. Refugees were being forcibly deported there. Tragically, I was proven right, and that was where my journey as an activist began.

So no, the asylum chaos is nothing new. It has always been a lottery, and the system must be rebuilt from the ground up. Now, the current government, like every government before it, has made a grave miscalculation.

The exemption intended to stop the deportation of teenagers is affecting the wrong people. I hope that one of the ministers, or one of their civil servants, finds a calculator before Waseem and Matyas are deported.

In the meantime, we are frantically searching for a way forward for them — perhaps in Canada."

[Nadine Maenza @nadinemaenza]

Patriarch Abune Mathias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church urges the government to stop the attacks on Christians in Oromia, where more than 50 people have reportedly been killed with churches & property destroyed.

The international community cannot continue to look away. https://t.co/C7KT2oFmzt

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Ethiopia: Dozens of Christians were slaughtered in recent days by ethnic militants in the Oromo region.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Christian community was intentionally targeted.

This evil must be stopped and those responsible brought to justice.

Pray for the afflicted.