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...
#Remember3August #Yezidi Washington DC: The Free Yezidi Foundation and the American Ezidi Center continue to call for global attention to help displaced and traumatized Yezidi survivors of genocide. To honor the memory of those who haven been killed and...
Trauma specialist Ginny Dobson left her home on the Isle of Portland in Devon to spend almost one year helping Yezidi women who had escaped from Daesh in Iraq. UK aid supported her work through the UN Women’s UN...
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...
Pari Ibrahim isn’t giving up hope in the face of the Yezidi people’s 74th genocide. On August 3, 2014, Pari Ibrahim’s life changed forever. That was the day ISIS arrived in Sinjar and began to commit genocide in the...
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 –...
Washington DC: The Free Yezidi Foundation and the American Ezidi Center call for global attention to help displaced and traumatized Yezidi survivors of genocide. To honor the memory of those who have been killed and the Yezidi women...