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...
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...
The Free Yezidi Foundation is a recipient of the prestigious UNTF grant. Pari Ibrahim was invited to New York to discuss the suffering of the Yezidi people and the trauma project, funded by the UN Trust Fund to End...
Education for rehabilitation and rebuilding confidence in war-torn children: Perspective from a Yezidi from Camp Khangee in Northern Iraq Enakshi Sengupta The American University of Kurdistan “I want to be educated, it is my only way to fight Daesh”...
All Party-Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security Meeting with the Free Yezidi Foundation 15th September 2015 The APPG-WPS hosted three speakers from the Free Yedizi Foundation during this meeting: Pari Ibrahim, Executive Director, spoke about the persecution of...
Baroness Hodgson chairs meeting about Free Yezidi Foundation at UK House of Lords Free Yezidi Foundation Founder and Executive Director Pari Ibrahim Speech at the House of Lords – APPG on Women, Peace and Security London, United Kingdom, 15...