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  1. theguardian.com/global-develop. "As well as organising the refuges, Mohammed ran #public #awareness campaigns through the #media about #sexual #slavery, #human #trafficking & #violence against #women, demanding #gender #equality. She also documented the #conditions of #female #survivors in the #shelters, especially those who had been rejected by their #families." #Children in #Iraq are permitted to marry at age 9. Yanar Mohammed was #Yazidi, so there was a #religious, as well as a #political, motive.

  2. Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate, #Iraq, August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said

    #photography
    #Reuters
    #refugees
    #Yazidi
    #children

  3. Associated Press: Iraq’s Yazidis rediscover lost history through photos found in museum archive. “One photo — a Yazidi shrine — caught the eye of Penn doctoral student Marc Marin Webb in 2022, nearly a decade after it was destroyed by IS extremists plundering the region. Webb and others began scouring museum files and gathered almost 300 photos to create a visual archive of the Yazidi […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/14/associated-press-iraqs-yazidis-rediscover-lost-history-through-photos-found-in-museum-archive/

  4. "Il #3agosto è un’altra macchia nera nella storia dell’umanità.
    In quel giorno del 2014, si consumò ancora una volta una brutale operazione di pulizia etnica contro un popolo dimenticato: gli #yazidi di #Şingal."

    #YazidiGenocide #Kurdistan #Isis #Daesh

    pressenza.com/it/2025/08/singa

  5. [11:52] Woman jailed in Sweden for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

    A Swedish court has sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes committed by the so-called Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

    rte.ie/news/world/2025/0211/14

    #Swedish #52_year_old #12years #first #IslamicState #Yazidi

  6. [12:39] Dutch woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slave in Syria

    A Dutch court has sentenced a woman to ten years in prison for joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave.

    rte.ie/news/world/2024/1211/14

    #Dutch #tenyears #IslamicState #Syria #Yazidi

  7. A big part of the persecution by Hamas authorities was forced hospitalisation, initiated by the #police after #suicide attempts!!

    Which I happen to EXTREMELY strongly disagree with, based on the counter productive effect it has WHEN USED BY AUSTRALIAN POLICE!!

    I disagree with #Hamas for all the same reasons that I disagree with Western conservatives.

    I would like Western conservatives and Israeli conservatives to stop being bloody hypocritical.

    jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/art

    #Yazidi #Gaza

  8. Some positive news from the #MiddleEast as a #Yazidi woman, captured at the age of 11 by Isis, and who ended up in #Gaza, is returned to her family in #Iraq through #Israel.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077

  9. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the #Yazidi genocide, the community in the old city of #Sinjar, #Iraq, hang pictures of the victims on the rubble.

    Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Observer

    @photography

  10. #Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps - theguardian.com/global-develop "A decade after tens of thousands of Yazidis escaped an Islamic State attack many fear return to a home in ruins"

  11. On #19June, hear these inspiring women discuss the implementation of the #Yazidi Survivors Law, the importance of reparations, complexities of transitional justice, and critical role of survivor advocacy in ensuring lasting change! #EliminateSexualViolence

    c4jr.org/1906202429312

  12. "Dieci anni fa, nel nord ovest dell’#Iraq, al confine con la #Siria e la #Turchia, l’#Isis consumò un vero e proprio eccidio del popolo ezida, nel silenzio o con la complicità degli Stati vicini.

    In difesa degli ezidi si schierarono solo il #PKK (Partito dei Lavoratori del Kurdistan) e le unità di resistenza curde del #Rojava (YPG e YPJ).
    Ancora oggi la persecuzione continua."

    #YazidiGenocide #19giugno #Yazidi #Kurdish #Daesh

    volerelaluna.it/mondo/2024/06/

  13. "On the 10th of June 2014 #IS captured #Mosul in Northern #Iraq and went on to swiftly capture other #Sunni #Iraqi areas. it then linked them up to areas it had already taken control of in #Syria , across the border. On the 29th of June the group declared itself a a #caliphate , rebranding as the #IslamicState and it named its then leader Abu Bakr al #Baghdadi as caliph. In August that year IS marched to #Yazidi areas near Mosul and killed and enslaved thousands of its residents. "