Investigative journalist and filmmaker amplifying persecuted voices and mobilizing global action for Assyrians and other minorities.
Hometown
Stockholm, Sweden
Age
55-64
Nuri Kino is a Swedish-Assyrian investigative journalist, author, filmmaker, and human rights advocate whose career has focused on exposing injustice and defending vulnerable communities. After training as a journalist in Stockholm, he went on to report from the Middle East, Europe, and beyond, producing award-winning investigations into human trafficking, refugee rights, corruption, and the targeting of ethnic and religious minorities. His documentaries, including films on Assyrian history and the Assyriska football club, have helped bring Assyrian narratives into mainstream media while highlighting the broader struggles of displaced peoples. In 2014 he founded A Demand For Action (ADFA), a grassroots organization that began as a social media campaign during the ISIS onslaught and has grown into an international advocacy and humanitarian network serving Assyrians, Yazidis, and other persecuted groups across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and more. Kino’s work has influenced public debate and policymaking, with ADFA’s advocacy contributing to increased aid for indigenous communities and to global recognition of the 1915 genocide of Armenians, Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs, and Greeks. Whether writing for international outlets, speaking at human rights forums, or organizing practical relief on the ground, he uses journalism as a tool for urgent solidarity, giving voice to those whom war, displacement, and discrimination push to the margins.
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Investigative journalist and filmmaker amplifying persecuted voices and mobilizing global action for Assyrians and other minorities.
Hometown
Stockholm, Sweden
Age
55-64
Nuri Kino is a Swedish-Assyrian investigative journalist, author, filmmaker, and human rights advocate whose career has focused on exposing injustice and defending vulnerable communities. After training as a journalist in Stockholm, he went on to report from the Middle East, Europe, and beyond, producing award-winning investigations into human trafficking, refugee rights, corruption, and the targeting of ethnic and religious minorities. His documentaries, including films on Assyrian history and the Assyriska football club, have helped bring Assyrian narratives into mainstream media while highlighting the broader struggles of displaced peoples. In 2014 he founded A Demand For Action (ADFA), a grassroots organization that began as a social media campaign during the ISIS onslaught and has grown into an international advocacy and humanitarian network serving Assyrians, Yazidis, and other persecuted groups across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and more. Kino’s work has influenced public debate and policymaking, with ADFA’s advocacy contributing to increased aid for indigenous communities and to global recognition of the 1915 genocide of Armenians, Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs, and Greeks. Whether writing for international outlets, speaking at human rights forums, or organizing practical relief on the ground, he uses journalism as a tool for urgent solidarity, giving voice to those whom war, displacement, and discrimination push to the margins.
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