Iraq’s Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return
Kocho, Iraq AP Ten years ago, their village in Iraq’s Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were abducted, many raped or taken as slaves. Now the survivors are coming back to Kocho, where Yazidi community leaders on Thursday announced plans for […]
Murad, Amal Clooney accuse leaders and UN of failing Yazidis
United NationsAP Six years after Islamic State fighters launched an attack on Iraq’s Yazidi minority, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused government leaders and the United Nations on Monday of failing to bring the extremists responsible for the genocide to justice. Murad, whose mother and six brothers were […]
Nobel winner unveils code to protect survivors of sexual violence in war
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation A new code of conduct for investigating sexual violence in conflict was unveiled on Friday, developed by Britain’s Foreign Office and Nadia Murad, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Its creators said they hoped it […]
Essay: Five years after Islamic State massacre, an Iraqi minority is transformed by trauma
In an article first published on The Conversation, TUTKU AYHAN and GUNES MURAT TEZCUR, of the University of Central Florida, look at what their research shows about how life has changed for the Yazidi of Iraq in the wake of Islamic State attacks…
Quick facts – 10 facts on Islamic State’s Yazidi killings
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of Islamic State’s assault on Iraq’s Yazidi minority, described by the United Nations as a genocide, in which thousands were killed or abducted. The 3rd August, 2014, attack on Mount Sinjar, the Yazidi heartland, shocked the international community and prompted the United States to carry out air […]
Nobel Prize winner warns wildfires threaten Iraqi mass graves
London Thomson Reuters Foundation Nobel Prize-winner and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad has warned that wildfires raging in northern Iraq could destroy crucial evidence of genocide committed by Islamic State. Murad, a survivor of sexual slavery, said the fires had burned some of the 79 mass graves in the Sinjar region where victims of Islamic State […]
France to help formerly captive Yazidis after meeting with Nobel winner Murad
Thomson Ruters Foundation The president of France has agreed to take in 100 formerly enslaved Yazidi women after meeting with Nadia Murad, a survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, supporters said on Friday, saying the honour helps strengthen her fight for fellow Yazidis. France said it would help resettle the women who had been held […]
Quick facts – Persecution of the Yazidi people
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the so-called Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Murad was 21 in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked the village where she had grown up in northern Iraq. She was taken into captivity by the militants, […]
Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as a weapon of war
World Watch Monitor The Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi, were awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. “Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending […]