Restoring Peace and Stability to the Middle East

Intensifying global competition over natural resources increasingly makes indigenous communities, who act to protect their traditional lands and territories, targets of persecution by State and non-State actors. Indigenous leaders and community members, who voice opposition to development or investment projects from extractive industries or large infrastructure projects like hydro-power are often subjected to criminalisation, harassment, threats, violent attacks and even murder.

The Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Middle East and North Africa (CINMENA) unites and serves a host of Indigenous nations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Subcontinent with the shared objective of restoring peace and stability here where the world most needs it.

The Yezidi are a distinct people, not to be confused with Kurds. Their territory is Ezidikhan, the ancient homeland of Yezidi…not Kurds

The Marsh Dwellers (Arabs) continue to live in the marshlands of Southern Iraq, but their numbers have decreased hugely in the past ten years, as high numbers were persecuted by the Saddam Hussain regime. They still suffer prejudice, and there is no legislation in place to support them.

The Jahalin Bedouin of West Bank (Palestine) live in rural areas around Bethlehem and Jerusalem, an area now identified as Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are a displaced people, and their makeshift villages are continually moved and destroyed.

Assyrian peoples are also indigenous to areas which are now parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. They have suffered in history due to numerous events, most recently as a result of the Iraq war.  Unlike many other indigenous peoples of the world, these groups in the Middle East remain unrecognised and unsupported by their own countries or international law, in an area of unresolved conflict.

CINMENA signatory nations to ICRIN

(includes each nation’s ICRIN ratification document.)

1. Abābdah Nation of Egypt and Sudan
2. Adnanite Anazzah Tribe of Iraq
3. Afghan Hindu Congress
4. Ahwaz Nation of Iran
5. Al-Anbar-Al-Jolan
6. Al-Dulaimi Tribal Confederation of Iraq
7. Al-Qaddafa Tribe
8. Albu-Nasral-Tikriti
9. Amazigh Tribes of Libya
10. Amazigh Confederation of North Africa
11. Amazigh Kabyle of Algeria
12. Amazigh Tribes of Egypt
13. Amazigh Tribes of Mali
14. Amazigh Tribes of Morocco
15. Amazigh Tribes of Niger
16. Amazigh Tribes of Tunisia
17. Anazzah Tribal Confederation of Iraq
18. Bani Murra Romas of Jordan
19. Bidoon tribes of Iraq and Kuwait
20. Confederation of Roma Tribes of the Middle East
21. Domari Confederation of the Middle East
22. East Kurdistan
23. Ezidikhan Armenia
24. Ezidikhan Georgia 
25. Ezidikhan Iraq
26. Ezidikhan Syria
27. Anatolian Ezidikhan
28. Fallujah Tribal Confederation
29. Ḥizb Al-Ba’aṯ Al-‘Arabī Al-Ištir Tribe of Iraq
30. Idlib Druze-Domari Alliance of Syria
31. Jahalin Bedouin Tribe of Palestine
32. Jews of Morocco
33. Kalash Chitral Indigenous Tribal Coalition
34. Kam Assembly of Turkey
35. Khuzestan
36. Kirkuk Bayat Tribe
37. Kurdish Republic
38. Laz Tribal Nation
39. Luristan
40. Maʻdān Nation of Iraq & Iran
41. Mandaeans of Iraq Iran & Syria 
42. Marsh Arab Tribal Nation
43. Mullagori Tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan
44. Nineveh Tribal Assembly of Iraq
45. Nubians of Upper Egypt
46. Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan
47. Qashqai Tribes
48. Rashaida Tribe of Bedouin Arabs
49. Salahadin Tribe of Iraq
50. Shabaks of Iraq
51. Shammar Tribes of Iraq
52. Sulukule (Roma) of Turkey
53. Syrian Bedouin Confederation
54. Tafsut Amazigh of Morocco
55. Tuareg Tribes of North Africa
56. Turkmen Tribes of Afghanistan
57. Turkmen of Iran
58. Turkmen of Syria
59. Urugati Tribal Nation
60. World Amazigh Congress
61. Yarmouk Basin Nations
62. Yarsan Nation of Iraq & Iran
63. Yezidi Supreme Spiritual Council
64. Zargari Nation of Iran
65. Zagros Liberal Alliance of Iran
66. Zoroastrians of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
67. Zuwayya Tribal Nation