Pascal Esho Warda was the Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government

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. A Chaldean Catholic and an ethnic Assyrian

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, she was born in 1961 in the Northern Iraqi city of Dahuk

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, but later exiled to France

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. There, she attended the University of Lyon

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 and received her Masters

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 in human rights studies. A member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement

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The Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....

, she co-founded the Iraqi Society for Human Rights and was the President of the Assyrian Womens Union in Baghdad

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As minister she expressed her support for the death penalty for Saddam Hussein

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. During her minister position post, she was invited by the First Lady of the United States

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 Laura Bush

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, for a discussion on global women's issues at the G8 Summit in Sea Island

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, Georgia

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She is married to William Warda

William Warda

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and have two daughters.