Turkey. Iraq and Egypt. in addition to those internally displaced. In support of the Syria Response Plan and the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan. international donors pledged US$3.8 billion. However. according to the Financial Tracking Service at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or OCHA. only $1.17 billion of $2.89 billion in the plan had been received as of December 7th. This constitutes only 41% of what is considered necessary by OCHA. Last weeks hearing focused on the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Syria and Iraq. which constitutes genocide. and the failure of much of the international community to live up to their pledges of humanitarian assistance. factors which "push" refugees to Europe and beyond. In particular. we will examine violence targeting religious minorities such as Christians and Yezidis (a nonIslamic religious minority) in territory controlled by ISIS in Syria and Iraq. This past September. the SimonSkjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum undertook a "Bearing Witness" trip to northern Iraq to investigate allegations of genocide being committed by ISIS.
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