March 15, 2017. Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Today, the Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF) and Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) announce a new effort to pursue justice for Yezidi survivors of genocide. In August 2014, Daesh attacked...
The Free Yezidi Foundation is very pleased to accept a generous grant from Nokia. This grant will be used to further FYF activities in the IDP camp in Khanke. FYF was among five nonprofits invited by Global Giving to...
The Free Yezidi Foundation is delighted by the judicial decision to release Basima Darwesh. We believe this is the right decision, and today justice was served. An innocent woman and a brave survivor will begin her journey to rebuild...
The Free Yezidi Foundation met with Basima Darwesh in Erbil at the Women’s and Juvenile Detention Center on 25 January to look into her welfare and her legal representation. We met her once again on 19 February in anticipation...
Dear Friends, The Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF) is extremely pleased to announce that the very talented French artist, Frederic Lecut, has generously hand-crafted and donated a series of beautiful mosaics depicting the most innocent victims of the ISIS genocide...
The Free Yezidi Foundation women’s center and children’s center participants celebrated their graduation days last week. After three months of courses, participants received their certificates of graduation. In addition, a generous donor provided shoes to the children and FYF...
Zazi Ibrahim and IDP camp residents FYF country coordinator Zazi Ibrahim is departing after nearly a year and a half of leadership service. Zazi has been the cornerstone of the Free Yezidi Foundation in Duhok. In coordination with FYF...
Here's how one organization is working to help Yazidis who escaped ISIS:
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...
Photo series: Law-student from Amsterdam Pari helps Yezidi women in Northern-Iraq By Hans van der Steeg – 26th of August in Brandpunt The Amsterdam law-student Pari Ibrahim (27) was born as a Yezidi; the Yezidis are a religious minority...