ISIS fighters committed genocide and rape against members of Iraq’s minority Yazidi faith, but here we ask, did Yazidi women suffer the most? And why has no ISIS member been prosecuted for these crimes? By Emily Feldman in ELLE...
Date: Friday, August 3, 2018 Photo of participants in a panel marking fourth anniversary of the ISIS attack on the Yazidi* community in Sinjar, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual...
August 3rd marks the fourth anniversary of the Daesh attack on the Yezidi community in Sinjar – the beginning of their genocidal campaign against the Yezidi people. Four years on, Yezidis are still waiting for any measure of justice...
August 3rd marks the fourth anniversary of the Daesh attack on the Yezidi community in Sinjar – the beginning of their genocidal campaign against the Yezidi people. Four years on, Yezidis are still waiting for any measure of justice...
Today, on March 8th, we celebrate International Women’s Day. For many women and girls around the world, this is a day of hope, inspiration, and solidarity. For the Yezidi community, international women’s day is another opportunity to draw attention...
By Pari Ibrahim In 2014, ISIS terrorists entered the city of Sinjar in Iraq, with the well-articulated, written, pre-meditated plan to eradicate the Yezidi people. Yezidis are members of an ethno-religious minority group living in northern Iraq. We practice...
FYF Executive Director Pari Ibrahim delivered the following speech to open the inaugural event of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Ferencz Initiative in Washington, D.C. Speech of Pari Ibrahim Free Yezidi Foundation Executive Director US Holocaust Memorial Museum –...
On 1 August 2017, the Jewish community will celebrate the Tish b’Av holiday. Pari Ibrahim, of the Free Yezidi Foundation, has been invited to share the story of the Yezidi people with the Jewish Community at JASS (Jewish Activism...
The Dutch news show Brandpunt traveled with Pari Ibrahim, Founder and Executive Director of the Free Yezidi Foundation, to Northern Iraq to document the progress her Foundation has made there. They take a look at the children’s and women’s...
August 2, 2016 ISIL’s massacre of the Yezidi people made headlines around the world. In August of 2014, as many as 400,000 Yezidis fled when ISIL fighters captured their town in Northern Iraq. Thousands took refuge on nearby Mount Sinjar...