An Ezidi kid in traditional attire attending a ceremony in the village of Kojo, Shingal district in February 2021 for the burial of remnants of…
Mazin Salim, the teen survived ISIS in 2019, desperately lives with his mother and grandmother in Barsiv IDP camp for Ezidis in Duhok. Photo by…
Classroom for religious lessons to Ezidi children survived ISIS atrocities in Duhok, April 2019. Photo by KirkukNow. Iraqi parliament has skipped two articles in the…
The UN General Assembly has voted to adopt a resolution protecting religious sites. Recent conflicts in Iraq and Syria have seen vast swathes of religious…
Read the story of Fawzia, held captive by ISIS, liberated, living in an IDP camp, taken to an orphanage, then back to he Camp. According…
Ekhlas KHudur, second from the left, with four other women nominated as ambassador of hope in 2019 In every narration of the same story, she…
Max J. Joseph, Iraq Programme Coordinator at Minority Rights Group International Today, Yezidis will finally be able to give their loved ones a proper burial in Kocho,…
Hundreds of families returned to Shingal seek permission to retun to IDP camps in Duhok due to instability and hard living conditions. Nineveh 2020: Ezidi…
Duhok, 2019 – School children on their way home at Mam-Rashan IDP Camp – photo: Ammar Azeez After escaping years of anguish in ISIS captivity,…
As part of the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), we are working with religious minority communities in Iraq and Syria to…
The dagger ‘uncle’ Azeez tucks in his waistband has been in his possession for nearly half a century and has been in his family for…
With a long history of persecution, the Yezidis recently experienced a genocide at the hands of Daesh in Iraq. As well as systematically killing and…
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