IRAQ

On the third and fifteenth of August 2014, the terrorist organization “Islamic State” attacked around 20 villages and towns in Sinjar, the home region of the Yazidis in Iraq. Men and boys over 14, including the elderly, sick and disabled, were executed and left in mass graves. The younger boys were abused as child soldiers.

Women and girls were separated, many were raped and then sold into sexual and domestic slavery. Over 3,000 Yazidis died in this genocide in the cruellest of ways – the number of unreported cases is much higher. Half a million people became refugees overnight, hundreds of thousands fled to the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, where many still live in camps for internally displaced persons. HÁWAR.help launched our first project “BACK TO LIFE” in one of these camps in 2018. Today, we run several projects in the region that support women, girls and families who have survived war, destruction and genocide to build an independent and self-determined life.

YAZIDI COMMUNITY ARCHIVE

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