FYF testimony at USCIRF Congressional Hearing
Please click here for the full testimony of FYF Executive Director Pari Ibrahim. The testimony was given at the USCIRF event on 26 September 2019 regarding religious minorities in Iraq.
Justice for Survivors of ISIS: The Plight of Yazidi Women
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...
Circa piece on the Free Yezidi Foundation
Here's how one organization is working to help Yazidis who escaped ISIS:
Hope After Hell – documentary by Brandpunt
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...
The Heat: Plight of the Yezidis – an interview by CCTV America with Pari Ibrahim
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...
FYF holds candlelight vigil on 3 August in front of White House
White House Vigil to Mark 2nd Anniversary of Yezidi Genocide #Remember3August Washington DC: To mark the 2nd anniversary of the genocide perpetrated by ISIS against the Yezidis in Sinjar and Nineveh Plains, Iraq, the Free Yezidi Foundation is calling...
How this young Yazidi is bringing hope to IS victims
By: Brenda Stoter, Syria Pulse, Almonitor AMSTERDAM — Pari Ibrahim, 27, was a regular law student in the Netherlands who had a job in a library until she received a phone call at 5 a.m. in August 2014 that...
End of year review – towards a brighter future.
FYF executive director Pari Ibrahim advocated for genocide recognition at a closed meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York, co-chaired by Spain and the United States Dear friends, The 2015 year has brought enormous challenges and...
FYF’s Pari Ibrahim with Dutch news on genocide against the Yezidis
Pari Ibrahim, Free Yezidi Foundation founder and executive director, explains why retaking Sinjar and the application of the word ‘genocide’ matter so much to Yezidis. Interview is conducted in Dutch by Holland’s leading news outlet, Nieuwsuur (enable ‘cc’ subtitles...
Yazidis urge UN to define IS onslaught as genocide
The IS atrocities against Yazidis constitute genocide and should be called such by the UN, a campaigner told Middle East Eye By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS, New York – The Islamic State (IS) group captured 19 of Pari Ibrahim’s...