Daesh (ISIS) Burn Crop Fields in Shingal, Iraq In May and early June 2019, Daesh (Islamic State, IS, ISIS) terrorists allegedly burnt significant areas of cropland in Syria and Iraq2. On Tuesday, 4 June, thousands of donums of agricultural...
The Free Yezidi Foundation rejects the decision by the Netherlands IND, or immigration authority, to begin deporting Yezidi asylum seekers who have fled from Iraq. The Free Yezidi Foundation, which is a Netherlands-based charity, is generally supportive of the...
The Yezidi Spiritual Council, the supreme body charged with binding religious decisions for Yezidis, has in the last days addressed the very difficult issue of children born to Yezidi mothers from the rape of Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL,...
Now that the caliphate of Islamic State/ISIS has collapsed, there are a lot of foreign wives of ISIS fighters who want to return to their home country. Because of this there is a discussion in Western countries whether or...
Our Executive Director Pari Ibrahim had an interview with Al Jazeera English about FYF’s statement about the effects of the premature withdrawal of US Forces from Syria on the Yezidi population there and in Iraq. You can view the...
Download the Report as PDF File Implications for Minorities in Syria and Iraq 4 January 2019 The Free Yezidi Foundation is grateful to the United States of America, especially the armed forces, for the intervention to combat and degrade...
DECADE OF WOMEN ANNOUNCES YEAR-END MATCH GRANTS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS iCrowdNewswire – Dec 18, 2018 Inspired by 2018 Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad, $1M Grant Campaign Announced For Free Yezidi Foundation and charity: water Pari Ibrahim, Founder and Executive...
We are alarmed that confidential information regarding the location and personal situation of Yezidi survivor Ashwaq Al-D. has been handed to the German press. She is a key witness in an international criminal investigation conducted by the Office of...
The Free Yezidi Foundation has remained neutral and kept a distance from political actions in Iraq, focusing exclusively on humanitarian, human rights, and justice and accountability efforts. Recently the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government have made...
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...