Aug 28, 2023
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...
Aug 28, 2023
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]...
May 11, 2023
Photo: REUTERS/Azad Lashkari The Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR) strongly condemns the recent hate speech and false accusations made against the Yazidi community in Iraq for the alleged burning of a mosque in Sinjar on April 27, 2023. C4JR stands in solidarity...
May 9, 2023
Photo: A boy walks on a road at the Mamrashan camp for civilians displaced by war, located a half hour’s drive from Dohuk city in Iraq, on January 14, 2017. © 2017 Alice Martins/AP Photo The recent Human Rights Watch report on Iraq titled “Compensation for...
Apr 16, 2023
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...
