Yazidis

Posted at 23:28 18 Nov 2020
Yazidis appoint new spiritual leader in Iraq
The religious minority group suffered harsh persecution under Islamic State (IS) group control.
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Posted at 1:33 30 Jul 2020
Yazidi children still haunted by IS, Amnesty says
Large numbers of Yazidi were killed by the Islamic State when it overran their homeland in 2014.
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Posted at 10:18 24 Apr 2020
IS suspect on trial in Germany for Yazidi genocide
A 37-year-old man is accused of murdering a five-year-old girl in Iraq in 2015.
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Posted at 10:10 5 Feb 2020
'Singing Yazidi ancient music has saved me'
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Video caption: A choir of young Yazidi women who were victims of the IS vows to keep their music alive
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Posted at 8:06 1 Aug 2019
A mother's heart-breaking choice
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The story of a Yazidi mother who was forced to give up her IS child, and went back to look for him. Read more
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Posted at 0:08 11 May 2019
Iraq: A state of mind, Maryam's story
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The country has just one psychiatric hospital for a population of 38 million.
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Posted at 18:16 28 Dec 2018
German IS member 'let child die of thirst'
Woman faces war crimes charges for failing to save an enslaved girl chained in scorching sunlight.
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Posted at 18:40 9 Oct 2018
'I wish the world would let women feel safe'
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Video caption: Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad: 'It's a huge responsibility'
Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants, explains what winning the prize means to her.
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Posted at 12:44 5 Oct 2018
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad
The Yazidi human rights activist is awarded the prize for her work against the use of rape as a weapon of war.
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Posted at 12:30 5 Oct 2018
'How I escaped from Islamic State'
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Posted at 23:26 5 Sep 2018
Life after four years as an IS captive
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Video caption: Finally released after four years of captivity under Islamic State
Her family raised thousands of dollars to get Ghazal and her children released.
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Posted at 23:09 4 Sep 2018
The 'forgotten' people of an unforgettable story
By Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent
Four years after the IS invasion, Yazidis in northern Iraq feel they have been abandoned by the world.
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Posted at 11:56 20 Aug 2018
Yazidi Islamic State survivor gets engaged
Nadia Murad, who was captured by Islamic State militants in 2014, finds love with a fellow activist.
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Posted at 1:03 18 Aug 2018
'I met my IS captor on a German street'
By Victoria Bisset & Lyse Doucet
BBC News
A Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by IS tells of her horror at meeting her captor in a German street.
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Posted at 22:20 17 Aug 2018
'I was so scared I was shaking'
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Video caption: Former Yazidi sex slave: 'I was so scared I was shaking'
Ashwaq, a Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by Islamic State, was found by her former captor in Germany.
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Posted at 9:46 3 May 2018
Cornish nurse uses botox profits to help refugees
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An NHS nurse from Cornwall, who offers botox injections as a side project, has set up her own charity to help refugees in Iraq.
Anne Norona uses some of the income from her private work in Truro to pay for medical supplies and aid for people living in makeshift camps.
Ms Norona was inspired to help by her extensive voluntary work in Haiti and Greece.
She says she's raised £50,000 in the last 18 months, most of it in donations from friends and associates, while a small part was through her own work.
The Yazidis, an ethnic Kurdish group in northern Iraq, were targeted by so-called Islamic State fighters in 2014.
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Video caption: Cornish nurse uses botox profits to help refugees
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Posted at 1:00 8 Apr 2018
'I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS'
By Lizzie Porter
Sharya, Iraq
Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali has spent much of the last four years buying back members of his family who were were captured by IS.
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Posted at 20:48 10 Jan 2018
Horror and hope
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Video caption: Horror and hope - the artists defying IS terror
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Posted at 19:13 6 Jan 2018
Horror and hope - the artists defying IS terror
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Posted at 23:28 22 Sep 2017
Iraq's minorities fear for their future
By Yolande Knell
BBC News, Northern Iraq
Despite the gradual defeat of IS, Iraq's minorities fear for their future, says Yolande Knell.
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