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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 [...]
Yezidi women demonstrate in Syria to commemorate the fifth anniversary of attacks by the Islamic State (EI) group. Netherlands: 10 years in prison for enslaving a Yezidi woman
11 December 2024 by AFP
This is a crime against humanity, stressed the District Court of The Hague, in the Netherlands, in delivering its verdict on Wednesday 11 December. It sentenced Hasan Aarab, a Dutch citizen, to 10 years' imprisonment for using a Y [...]
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 [...]
UNITAD teams on the ground in Iraq, helping to find mass graves where victims of the Islamic State organisation were buried. Photo: investigators and technicians (one wearing a waistcoat bearing the United Nations logo) work on a mass grave site. UNITAD’s unfulfilled goals for ISIS accountability in Iraq
19 November 2024 by Hawre Ahmed (for Justice Info)
On 17 September 2024, UNITAD, the United Nations Investigative team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Daesh/ISIS, concluded its mandate after seven years. Human rights activist and jurist Hawre Ahmed says the UN bo [...]
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Trial in the Netherlands for the slavery of Yezidi women in Syria - Photo: a Yezidi woman victim of slavery poses in profile in Syria.
22 October 2024 by Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
“IS saw the Yazidis as objects, not people” From October 14 to 17, victims’ testimonies were shared in the trial of a Dutch national accused of holding two Yazidi women as house slaves in Syria. The accused had travelled in 2015 with her four-year-old son and married an Isl [...]
Crimes against Yazidis - Kurds demonstrate in the Netherlands in support of the Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, victims of Islamic State violence.
22 May 2023 by Margherita Capacci
Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis 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
7 December 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi 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 [...]
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 [...]