Iraq
On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) initiated a genocidal campaign against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority group who are indigenous to Northern Iraq.
Over the following years, ISIS forced thousands of women and girls into sexual slavery and subjected them to forced marriages, daily rapes, and other forms of conflict-related sexual violence.
Iraqi authorities passed legislation to provide reparations to Yazidi survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in March 2021. But implementation of this law has been slow and has seen obstacles.
We partnered with Nadia’s Initiative, an international organisation founded by ISIS survivor and Global Survivors Fund (GSF) co-founder Nadia Murad, to co-create and implement the interim reparative measures with Yazidi survivors in Sinjar and Dohuk.
2020
PROJECT BEGAN
1,040
SURVIVORS PARTICIPATING
2
LOCATIONS
Interim reparative measures being co-created with survivors
The measures, designed to help survivors rebuild their lives while advocating for and supporting national authorities to implement survivor-centric reparations, include:
Compensation in the form of cash, livelihood, or shelter support;
Psychosocial support;
Medical care;
Education;
Legal and documentation services.
In consultation with the wider community, survivors decided to build a memorial statue and garden at the entrance of Sinjar as a collective interim reparative measure. This statue was inaugurated at a gathering with survivors and their families in February 2024. Later that year, we published a brief on the transformative impact of interim reparative measures in the country.
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