Women In Iraq Suffer Under ISIS‏

THE WEEK IN RIGHTS April 7, 2016 Follow us on:

Women In Iraq Suffer Under ISIS Photo © 2014 Human Rights Watch “The longer they are held by ISIS, the more horrific life becomes for Yezidi women, bought and sold, brutally raped, their children torn from them. Meanwhile, ISIS’s restrictions on Sunni women cut them off from normal life and services almost entirely.” In January and February 2016, Human Rights Watch interviewed 21 Sunni Muslim Arab women from and 15 women and girls from the Yezidi minority ethnic group, all of whom had fled ISIS-controlled areas in Iraq, most in late 2015. They described being forcibly converted to Islam, kept in sexual slavery, bought and sold in slave markets, and passed among as many as four ISIS members. Systematic rape of Yezidi women and girls was also documented. Read more » share on: