Stand up for #Nadia Mard and Yazidi women
Stand up for #Nadia Mard and Yazidi women
The Issue
1. Recognize crimes committed against Yazidis as crimes against humanity and for the UN to set up a special tribunal to investigate these horrendous crimes and bring the perpetrators to trial.
2. Appoint Nadia Murad as a special UN ambassador on the issue of violence against women and sex slavery.
Nadia Mard was bright attractive young woman living peacefully in her KOJO village in Shangal, a small Yazidi town in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, dreaming like any other girl of her age of a better and happier future. That dream was brutally shattered on 14th August 2014 when ISIS, the most barbaric terrorist group in the history of the region, captured her village.
Nadia Mard was one of thousands of Yazidi women and girls who were taken by ISIS as ‘trophies’ of their conquest. She, like others, had two options: either abandon her Yazidi religion or become a sex slave. When she refused to do what they asked of her, she was subjected to gang rape. Such sex slaves are bought and sold by ISIS soldiers for as little as $10.00 each. Nadia was taken from one house to the other, put on sale in the market and transactions made by phone. She was subjected to appalling sexual violence. Hundreds of other Yazidi girls and women have been killed or have died after undergoing such brutal experiences; some took their own lives rather than having to face their own community again. Their only crime was they are Yazidis, who represent one of the most ancient religious groupings in the area.
Nadia managed to escape from her captors with the help of others and instead of hiding herself because of the ‘shame’ she had gone through, she confronted life in the bravest way by touring the world to expose the crimes of ISIS and letting her audiences know what Yazidi women are going through; there are still 3400 Yazidi women and girls in the hand of ISIS.
On 12th of December Nadia addressed the UN Security Council, calling on them to denounce ISIS and help save the captured Yazidi women and demanding that they and the Yazidi community be given protection by the International community.'
The Issue
1. Recognize crimes committed against Yazidis as crimes against humanity and for the UN to set up a special tribunal to investigate these horrendous crimes and bring the perpetrators to trial.
2. Appoint Nadia Murad as a special UN ambassador on the issue of violence against women and sex slavery.
Nadia Mard was bright attractive young woman living peacefully in her KOJO village in Shangal, a small Yazidi town in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, dreaming like any other girl of her age of a better and happier future. That dream was brutally shattered on 14th August 2014 when ISIS, the most barbaric terrorist group in the history of the region, captured her village.
Nadia Mard was one of thousands of Yazidi women and girls who were taken by ISIS as ‘trophies’ of their conquest. She, like others, had two options: either abandon her Yazidi religion or become a sex slave. When she refused to do what they asked of her, she was subjected to gang rape. Such sex slaves are bought and sold by ISIS soldiers for as little as $10.00 each. Nadia was taken from one house to the other, put on sale in the market and transactions made by phone. She was subjected to appalling sexual violence. Hundreds of other Yazidi girls and women have been killed or have died after undergoing such brutal experiences; some took their own lives rather than having to face their own community again. Their only crime was they are Yazidis, who represent one of the most ancient religious groupings in the area.
Nadia managed to escape from her captors with the help of others and instead of hiding herself because of the ‘shame’ she had gone through, she confronted life in the bravest way by touring the world to expose the crimes of ISIS and letting her audiences know what Yazidi women are going through; there are still 3400 Yazidi women and girls in the hand of ISIS.
On 12th of December Nadia addressed the UN Security Council, calling on them to denounce ISIS and help save the captured Yazidi women and demanding that they and the Yazidi community be given protection by the International community.'
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Petition created on 30 December 2015