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Pascal Esho Warda

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Pascale Isho Warda (Template:Lang-syr) was the Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government. An Assyrian Christian,[1] she was born in 1961 in the city of Nohadra, but was later exiled to France. There, she attended the University of Lyon and received her Master's in human rights studies. She co-founded the Iraqi Society for Human Rights named Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO) and was the President of the Assyrian Women's Union in Baghdad.

As minister, she expressed her support for the death penalty for Saddam Hussein.[2] During her time as minister, she was invited by the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for a discussion on global women's issues at the G8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia.

She is married to William Warda and has two daughters, Shlama and Neshma.

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  1. ^ United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: USCIRF Events: 2005 Hearings: The United States and Pakistan: Navigating a Complex Relationship: Preeta Bansal Opening Remarks Archived 2007-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
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