Will Nadia Murad’s Nobel Prize help Iraqi minorities? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Saad Salloum

Saad Salloum

Oct 15, 2018

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney arrives with Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad (C) to meet with United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC19B328B270 — International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney (2L) arrives with Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad (C) to meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) at UN headquarters in New York, March 10, 2017. — REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

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Yazidi activist Nadia Murad to appear on 'The Daily Show'

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Nadia Murad Basee Taha adresses the European Parliament during an award ceremony for the 2016 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, December 13, 2016. Murad Basee Taha received the prize with Lamiya Aji Bashar (not pictured), both Iraqi women of the Yazidi faith. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC1F7E7163D0

Yazidi activist wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Al-Monitor Staff

Iraqi Yazidis burn incense during the funeral of Baba Sheikh Khurto Hajji Ismail (image), supreme spiritual leader of the Yazidi religious minority, in the Iraqi town of Sheikhan, 50km northeast of Mosul, on October 2, 2020. - Iraq's Yazidi minority laid to rest their spiritual leader today as tributes poured in for the man who guided his flock through the horrors of Islamic State group occupation.
Baba Sheikh Khurto Hajji Ismail died late yesterday at the age of 87, his office said. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED /

Yazidi spiritual leader Baba Sheikh dies at 87

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Staff at Iraqi forensics lab Medico-Legal Directorate in eastern Baghdad inspect samples on June 19, 2019. - The bones, recently exhumed from mass graves in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, will be compared with blood samples from surviving members of the community to help determine the fates of those still missing after the Islamic State group's 2014 sweep across their villages. Entire families were massacred, boys recruited to fight and women and girls forced into "sex slavery" in what t

Neglected Yazidi mass graves finally exhumed in Iraq

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