CUA Law Professor Robert Destro was quoted in a March 16 Catholic News Agency article entitled "What will the US do next for ISIS genocide survivors?" This article is regarding Destro's join statement of "recommended actions" for the Trump Administration to take to protect genocide survivors. See below.

What will the US do next for ISIS genocide survivors?

From: Catholic News Agency
Date: March 16, 2017
By: Matt Hadro

One year after the U.S. declared that ISIS was committing genocide in Iraq and Syria, advocates for religious and ethnic minorities are asking the Trump administration what the U.S. will do next to protect the vulnerable.

"This is a call for action," said Professor Robert Destro of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America.

On Thursday, Destro announced a joint statement of "recommended actions" for the administration to take to protect genocide survivors.

The document was a call "to stand up constantly" for minorities "who are being targeted today by ISIS and all of its affiliates around the world," he said.

Its signers include former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Robert George; former Congressman Frank Wolf; Bishop Francis Kalabat, eparch of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Detroit; and Bishop Barnaba Yousif Benham Habash of Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic diocese of the U.S. and Canada.

On March 17, 2016, the U.S. declared that ISIS was committing genocide against Christians, Yazidis, and Shi'a Muslims in Iraq and Syria. Professor Destro called it the "first truly formal declaration of genocide in American history."

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