Memorializing the victims of genocide is essential to the Yazidi community, many of whom remain displaced within Iraq more than eight years later. The final design for the cemetery and memorial was selected through extensive consultations with survivors both displaced and returned and aims not only to honor those who were lost, but also to act as a catalyst for the...
Nadia Murad’s Statement on the Change to the Eligibility Requirements for the Yazidi Survivors Law
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Nadia’s Initiative condemns recent hate speech and false accusations targeting the Yazidi community in Sinjar. Nadia’s Initiative, the organization founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad, is appalled and alarmed by the recent hate speech targeting the Yazidi community in Iraq. Last month, Yazidis were incorrectly accused of burning a mosque in Sinjar during a...
After weeks of investigation, I am extremely heartened to report that we have rescued six more Yazidi women who were taken captive by ISIS. The women were still children and teenagers when they were first taken captive in 2014. Trafficked out of Iraq and onto Syria, they were rescued on Saturday morning. They have been flown back to Erbil where they will be reunited...
Nadia’s Initiative (NI) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have recently completed the “Yazidi Genocide Memorial,” a monument to those who suffered and died at the hands of ISIS during the genocide, and a place of remembrance and healing for those families who were never...
On Wednesday I had the honor of attending the opening ceremony of the Yazidi Genocide Memorial in Solagh, Sinjar. The memorial was built by Nadia’s Initiative in partnership with the International Organization for Migration in Iraq and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, to remember the 2014 genocide. The slaughter of the Yazidi community was one...
Last month, Nadia Murad spoke at the Inauguration of the Yazidi Genocide Memorial in Solagh, Sinjar. The memorial was built by Nadia’s Initiative in partnership with the International Organization for Migration in Iraq and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, to remember the 2014 genocide. The memorial contains the so-called “Grave of the...
ENGLISH A year ago this week, the German parliament made an important decision by officially recognizing the Yazidi genocide at the hands of ISIS in 2014. That decision gave renewed hope to Yazidis across the world, especially the Yazidi diaspora in Germany. Many Yazidis, especially survivors of genocide and sexual violence, hoped that this decision would mean more...
On Wednesday 10th April 2024, the German authorities arrested two Iraqi suspects who are alleged members of ISIS, on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity. They have been accused of enslaving and raping two Yazidi girls. The crimes allegedly carried out against these two young girls by the pair were horrifying. No little girl should ever be taken from her...