• antiracist movement
• civic service

Founded in 2010 following the riots caused by racist attacks in Rosarno in southern Italy, and more broadly the rise of racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic acts in Europe, the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement-EGAM is committed to federating and structuring the anti-racist struggle in Europe.
Composed of 30 members associations 2 in about twenty European countries or neighboring countries, EGAM organizes its activities along three main areas:
1. Providing support to civil society organisations working on the fight against inequalities and discrimination as well as genocide denial
2. Developing field actions to raise civil society's awareness about the problems of human rights and the fight against discrimination
3. Lobbying and advocacy activities addressed to European institutions and governments

At the heart of these activities is the Paris-based coordination team, composed of a General Director, Mr. Arthur Legendre and, throughout the period under review, Silvia Siddu (Italy), Merve Degirmenci (Turkey/Germany), Gabriel Barzilai (Brasil), Robin Richter-Dalker(France), Emanuele Ventura (Italy), Farhad Shamo Roto (Iraq) and Margot Panyatopoulos (France).
The team was led by the president and founder of EGAM, Mr. Benjamin Abtan, former adviser to Bernard Kouchner and Christiane Toubira and the coordinator of the Elie Wiesel Network. Furthermore, there is the Board composed of five members from Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland and France.
As a member of the team, the missions that were assigned to me were more akin to a position of project management assistant: evaluation and monitoring of the current projects, financial and administrative follow-up of current and future projects, ensure the compliance with deadlines set by donors, but also participatE in the setting up of future projects and coordination of these with member and partner associations in France and Europe. When I arrived at EGAM, in March 2019, the projects that were discussed at the time concerned the various axes mentioned earlier were:
• the organization of the Sarajevo-sur-Seine Film Festival
• the Organization of a delegation to Turkey, composed of national and European parliamentarians, in the framework for the commemorations of the Armenian genocide
• the organization in Rome of the EGAM general assembly gathering the representatives of the member organizations
• the implementation of a monitoring evaluation system of the European Commission funded project.
Therefore, we can identify to key areas of most of my work at EGAM: Federating the fight against racism in Europe and raising awareness and field actions.
In these report, I will go through my experience at EGAM which changed during my all civic service as the organization went to through institutional changes and restructuration. As I arrived at the office, the team was completely new, so we all had to adapt to the new working environment. After 6 months, we had to go through another changewith the election of the new President and the demission of the current Director.

Since the beginning of the 21 TH century, the socio-political history of the Iraq has dramatically accelerated under the pressure of conflicting forces at the national, regional and international levels. This has led to a continuous and complex transformation of the regional political context. To this should be added geopolitical tensions, foreign appetites, different and often contrasting local and national socio-political aspirations. As well the security concerns have unevenly coalesced and overlapped, multiplying and amplifying fragmentation and polarization within the states. One of the most evident results in this complex transformative phase is the entropic spread of violence that although it affected the entire civilian population, ethnic and religious minorities were the most systematically affected, especially after the Organization of the Islamic State (Tanzim al-Dawla al-Islamiyya fi Iraq wa Sham–Daesh or ISIS) sensationalized the suffering of Ezidis and Christians of Iraq, spurring hundreds of thousands of people to flee 15.
In Iraqi history, in fact, the Ezidi have always been subject to various forms of violence and discriminatory treatment for different reasons, including their religious affiliation and their ethnic-cultural identity.
In this part of my report, I will talk about the historical background of the Ezidi community in this regard, the first part will focus on the oppression and persecutions suffered from Ezidis people throughout the history. The second part, instead, will deal the period between 2003-2013 fundamental to grasping how the genocide of the 2014 occurred. The third part will focus on the consequences of the genocide for the Ezidi and for the Iraqi State.
The conclusions will highlight the challenges and the opportunity for the Irqqi state to rebuild a new Iraq, and the possible role of Ezidi community.