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In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq
17 January 2025 by Bojan Gavrilovic (for Justice Info)
The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a s [...]
Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014. Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]
Crimes against Yazidis - Kurds demonstrate in the Netherlands in support of the Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, victims of Islamic State violence. Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis
22 May 2023 by Margherita Capacci
The first trial for crimes against the Yazidis is about to open in the Netherlands. The defendant, Hasna Aarab, is a 31-year-old Dutch national woman from Hengelo, a town in the East of the country. She is facing charges of slaver [...]
A woman and young Yezidi refugee girls Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi
7 December 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
In the German city of Frankfurt, Iraqi national Taha al-J. has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of a young Yazidi girl he enslaved. It is the first time worldwide that a court convicts a member of the organization Is [...]
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Daesh family back in
19 February 2021 by Charles Thiefaine
Iraqi tribal justice put to the test as Islamic State families return The upcoming closure of the last camp for internally displaced persons in Iraq, Jeddah 5 in the province of Mosul, raises the issue of the return of families affiliated with the Islamic State, some of whose members were combatants [...]