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2 days ago · Yazda, together with Sinjar Academy and Free Yezidi Foundation is publishing a Policy Paper which dives deep into the ongoing challenges faced by the Yazidi community, including protracted displacements, the lack of safety and guarantees of non-repetition, the reconstruction of Sinjar. It also underlines the remarkable efforts of the Yazidi ...
1 day ago · Sinjar, a remote district in Northwest Iraq, has suffered from neglect and political isolation for decades. In 2014, ISIS’s occupation caused severe infrastructure damage, mass displacement, and the disappearance, enslavement, or murder of nearly 8,000 civilians. The Yezidi community suffered greatly. Many outside Iraq will recall dramatic news reports on U.S. food assistance airdrops to […]
Jul 9, 2024 · Data collection for this factsheet took place in November 2022, across 3 sub-districts and 17 locations in the district of Sinjar. The focus of the study was on both IDPs and returnees within the district, including IDPs who are displaced within the district itself.
Jul 3, 2024 · Baghdad, 12 April 2019: The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is providing technical expertise and resources to support the Iraqi National Team at the mass grave excavation that resumed today in Kocho village near the town of Sinjar in Nineveh Province, northern Iraq.
4 days ago · (THE CONVERSATION) On the morning of Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State group launched a ruthless and swift campaign in Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq. The target was Yezidis: a monotheistic religious group whose members have long been persecuted. As forces affiliated with the regional Kurdish government ...
Iraq on Thursday revoked an earlier decision to close camps housing Yazidis displaced by the PKK terrorist group that has occupied their homes in northern Sinjar district. In an Aug. 3, ...
Jul 16, 2024 · Yet despite years of waiting, not a single person from Sinjar has received the compensation payments that they are entitled to under Iraqi law for destruction of and damage to their property.
