The 2016 Assyria Day conference brought together political leaders of government, academics, advocates and Assyrian nationalists both the youth and elderly to help further the objective of a tangible Assyrian homeland. The aim of this annual event was to highlight the rights of the Assyrian people to safely return to their homeland, to affirm their rights to exist in harmony, peace & security with their neighbours, and to re-energise the Assyrian spirit. It also supports the demands of the Assyrians in their pursuit of an autonomous federal province or state.