Experts and Non-Governmental Organisations welcomed the adoption by Iraq of the Yazidi Survivors Law on 1 March 2021, establishing an administrative reparation programme aimed at giving effect to survivors’ right to reparation. While the law is ground-breaking in many...
United Nations HeadquartersPhoto: World Tourism Organization With up to one million of disappeared persons during the last 50 years, Iraq figures as one the most affected countries worldwide. Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), body of independent experts...
The Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR) urges the Committee responsible for determining claims submitted under Iraq’s reparation program for ISIL survivors (Yazidi Survivors Law) to stop placing survivors´ well-being at risk through introducing extra-legal...
By passing the Yazidi [Female] Survivors Law (YSL), Iraq has made considerable progress in addressing the legacy of ISIL crimes against Yazidis and other minority groups. The YSL is also one of the very few examples of states taking deliberate action to specifically...
