August 3, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide – genocide perpetrated by Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS), a non-state actors, against an ethno-religious community in Sinjar, Iraq. Eleven years later, the Yazidi genocide is ongoing, with over 2,600 Yazidi women and children still missing. The Yazidi genocide is still ongoing with the promise of justice being unfulfilled. The Yazidi genocide is still ongoing with no steps being taken to prevent further atrocities against the community in the future.
On August 3, 2014, Daesh launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community. The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers. Thousands of women and girls were kidnapped and subjected to sexual slavery and violence. To this day, over 2,600 Yazidi women and children remain unaccounted for. Daesh’s crimes included murder, enslavement, deportation, and forced displacement. The group systematically imprisoned, tortured, abducted, exploited, abused, raped, and coerced women into marriages across the region. In the days following the Sinjar assault, Daesh expanded its campaign of terror to other communities in the Nineveh Plains, causing 120,000 people to flee in the dead of night in a desperate bid to save their lives.
Read more from our co-founder Dr Ewelina Ochab here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/08/01/the-pursuit-of-justice-for-the-yazidi-genocide-must-continue/
(Source: Forbes)
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