SHIKHAN (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): The spiritual leader of the Yezidi people said the minority he leads needs international help to recover from the worst atrocities they have suffered in their 74th genocide. Help is also needed to reintegrate...
Most people have a breaking point. For some, it is achieved under fairly everyday pressure. For others, it hits hard when the conditions are so cruel that they are almost unbearable. And you shout out to humanity that they must see what is happening...
Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): Words are not enough, action is absolutely necessary. That is what the former IS sex slave who survived by escaping and reaching the activist, Nadia Murad, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday 20 December 2016...
On Friday 21 September 2016, a young woman from the Yezidi minority was appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador. Nadia Murad Basee Taha was kidnapped from the Iraqi village of Kocho by IS and subjected to human trafficking. The appointment, made by the...
Being a minority in Iraq is dangerous. And no minority is more dangerous for it than the Yezidis. Their own records tell of 74 genocides. And you probably haven’t heard of the first 73. Hopefully you’ve heard of the latter. It is ongoing...
The holiday season has descended upon our little country. In our peaceful slice of the world. Not so far away, the reality is different. There, members of a minority are raped and beheaded, while the world turns its eyes away. Don’t look away...