During a virtual event “Options for Survivor-centered Justice in Iraq”, held on December 19, 2022, and co-hosted by the Coalition for Just Reparations, Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights, Yazda, and International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, UN...
Position Paper on a survivor-centered ISIL Accountability Mechanism in Iraq Eight years ago, on August 15, 2014, militants of the so-called Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Da’esh, either killed or enslaved more than 1,250 inhabitants of the...
To mark six months from adoption of the landmark Yazidi Female Survivors Law (YSL), C4JR presented its media statement at the in-person press conference in Bagdad held on September 1, 2021. This statement has been produced in collaboration with survivors, and...
In a statement marking seven years since ISIL terrorists brutally and systematically targeted religious minorities in Sinjar, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on Iraqi authorities to begin implementation of the Yazidi Survivors Law to assist Yazidi and...
On August 3rd 2014, ISIL terrorists attacked Sinjar where they executed men and young boys and abducted hundreds of women and children. The youngest boys were forced into ISIL training camps while women and girls were sold and subjected to sexual violence. C4JR and...