During the international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, we are helping spread the message of survivors of sexual violence in conflict zones worldwide. They are members of a growing global movement to fight the use of rape as a weapon of war. Today Fareeda Khalaf from Iraq.
In Fareeda Khalaf’s home country Iraq, sexual violence is being used by the Islamist group ISIS as a tool to terrorize the population and to commit genocide against the Yezidi minority. Khalaf, a member of the Yezidi community, was held in a slave camp and in the homes of ISIS members. After her escape, she published “The Girl Who Escaped ISIS.”
Read more about the conflict and sexual violence in Iraq in our country profile.
25 November: Statement by Dr Denis Mukwege
During the international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, we are helping spread the message of survivors of sexual violence in conflict zones worldwide. They are members of a growing global movement to fight the use of rape as a weapon of war. Today Fareeda Khalaf from Iraq.
In Fareeda Khalaf’s home country Iraq, sexual violence is being used by the Islamist group ISIS as a tool to terrorize the population and to commit genocide against the Yezidi minority. Khalaf, a member of the Yezidi community, was held in a slave camp and in the homes of ISIS members. After her escape, she published “The Girl Who Escaped ISIS.”
Read more about the conflict and sexual violence in Iraq in our country profile.
25 November: Statement by Dr Denis Mukwege