Hala Safeel, a prominent member of the C4JR Survivors Council, has left Iraq for Australia after being accepted into the Australian resettlement program for ISIL survivors and their families. The 27-year-old Yazidi survivor and activist had lived in an IDP camp in...
C4JR spoke to Professor Nimisha Patel on rehabilitation as a form of reparation, why it is important, and what needs to be done so that survivors can realise their right to rehabilitation guaranteed under the Yazidi Survivors Law. Professor Nimisha Patel is the...
Farida Khalaf is a survivor, human rights activist, co-author of “the Girl who Beat ISIS,” and President of Farida Global Organization. Here is her longer statement, a shortened extract of which features in the second C4JR YSL Newsletter. “The Yazidi [Female]...
In July, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantee of non-recurrence together with other Special Procedures, with the mandate to address human rights issues covered by the Yazidi [Female] Survivors Law (YSL), made public a...
On June 19, 2023 (International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict), C4JR Working Group on Ethical Engagement with Survivors met in person in Duhok. A key objective for this meeting was to engage in direct consultation with survivors, including...
Coalition for Just Reparations, with the support of IOM-Iraq, is publishing regular newsletters on the Yazidi Survivors Law (YSL) in three languages: Arabic, English, and Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani). Our goal is to share accurate and up-to-date information regarding...
