Topic: Yazidi Genocide

By Bared Maronian and Jackie Abramian “ISIS attacked us because they said we weren’t true believers. They said we didn’t believe in God — but that’s just not true. We[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Genocide is a crime against humanity, and it is the gravest crime. Rustam Bakoyan, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Protection and[...]

NEW YORK — On June 12, the Armenia-based Institute for Security Analysis sponsored an online discussion about the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the genocide inflicted upon the Yazidi[...]

By Sabrina Souza and Zoe Sottile NEW YORK (CNN)—  More than 400 Yazidi-Americans represented by renowned human rights attorney Amal Clooney filed a lawsuit in New York on Thursday, December[...]

By Matt Broomfield The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this week received a formal complaint over a Turkish airstrike which struck a civilian hospital in the Yazidi homeland of[...]

By Melissa Eddy BERLIN (New York Times) — A criminal court in Munich sentenced a German convert to Islam to 10 years in prison on Monday, October 25, finding the[...]

By Sarkawt Mohammed ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Rudaw) — Shame Dero lost five of her ten children to the Islamic State group (ISIS). Every year, on August 3, in commemoration of[...]

By Fehim Tastekin ANKARA (Al-Monitor) — Six years after its gruesome assault on the Yazidi minority in Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) continues to sell Yazidi captives online on what[...]

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Combined Sources) — Iraq’s Yazidi community remains overlooked by the international community and Erbil and Baghdad authorities six years on from the genocide, Yazidi survivor and Nobel[...]

YEREVAN — Mirza Dinnayi received the fourth annual Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity on October 20 in a large public ceremony in Freedom Square in Yerevan as part of the[...]