Yazidi genocide
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The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and force
Left-to-right from top: Yazidi refugees receiving support from the International Rescue Committee; American relief worker of USAID conversing with Iraqi locals near Sinjar; packaged bundles of water inside of a C-17 Globemaster III prior to an emergency airdrop by the United States Air Force.
A Yazidi mass grave in the Sinjar region in 2015
The ruins of Sinjar in July 2019 after the invasion of the Islamic State
Defend International provided humanitarian aid to Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan in December 2014.
Nadia Murad
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Nadia Murad Basee Taha is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq. Mu
Murad in 2023
Human Rights panel in Vienna in 2018: left to right: 1 Abid Shamdeen 2 Nadia Murad 3 Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein 4 Karin Kneissl 5 Michael O'Flaherty 6 Hauwa Ibrahim 7 Max Schrems 8 Susana Chiarotti
Poster of Nadia Murad speaking to the UN Security Council at the Yazidi Temple of Lalish, Ninawa
Murad and Denis Mukwege receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018