Plus d’une décennie après le génocide de 2014, près de 200 000 Ezidis restent déplacés et plus de 2 500 femmes et enfants sont encore portés disparus. La mémoire exige l’action, la dignité exige la justice, et la prévention exige le courage de confronter les crimes avant qu’ils ne se produisent.
Nobel laureate Nadia Murad continues her global mission for justice for Ezidi survivors of IS atrocities. During her recent meeting with the President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, she urged formal recognition of the Ezidi genocide, while advocating for survivor support, reparations, and accountability for perpetrators.
Sinuni, whose name means “our spring” in the Ezidi language, is one of the central towns of the Sinjar region. Once known for its quiet rural life, it was devastated during the 2014 ISIS genocide. Today, Ezidis continue to rebuild it house by house, field by field. Sinuni stands as a place where loss, memory, and resilience meet — a reminder that even after destruction, renewal is possible.
Nadia Murad has been awarded an honorary doctorate by César Vallejo University in Peru for her global advocacy against sexual violence in conflict and her ongoing work for Ezidi survivors. During the university’s 34th anniversary ceremony, Murad highlighted the power of education in rebuilding lives after genocide — a message that continues to resonate more than a decade after the 2014 atrocities.
Belgian ISIS member Sammy Djedou is being tried in absentia in Brussels for genocide and crimes against humanity against Ezidi women. Prosecutors accuse him of enslaving, torturing, and raping three Ezidi women during ISIS’s 2014 attack on Shengal (Sinjar) in Iraq — crimes described as part of the group’s campaign to annihilate the Ezidis.
Belgium is set to hold its first-ever trial for genocide against the Ezidi people, as IS fighter Sammy Djedou faces charges in absentia for murder, rape, and sexual enslavement. For the survivors who will testify, the courtroom is more than a legal stage — it is a rare space to confront the violence that shattered their lives and to assert that the world cannot forget the genocide against the Ezidis.
At Chapman University, Nobel laureate and human rights advocate Nadia Murad shared her powerful journey from surviving the genocide against the Ezidi people to leading global efforts for justice, remembrance, and survivor recovery. Her words reminded students that resilience begins with compassion — both for others and for oneself.
Ezidi’s in Irak eisen bij de verkiezingen van 11 november meer dan één quota-zetel. Met de Ezidi Cause Alliance streven ze naar bredere vertegenwoordiging, politieke erkenning en de wederopbouw van Shingal na jaren van ontheemding en onderdrukking.
More than a decade after ISIS destroyed Shingal, Germany is urging Iraq to speed up reconstruction of the Ezidi homeland. Despite new laws and aid projects, most Ezidis remain displaced, and rebuilding has stalled amid political tensions and insecurity.
The documentary “Hawar, Our Banished Children” exposes the hidden trauma of Ezidi women raped by ISIS, who now search for the children born from these assaults. With 3,000 women still missing, the film highlights ongoing genocide, the rejection of these children by the Ezidi people, and the first European trials of jihadists for these crimes.
Nearly 300 long-forgotten photographs of the Ezidi people, taken in northern Iraq during the 1930s, have been rediscovered in an American museum archive. The images, showing weddings, shrines, and daily life, offer a rare glimpse into Ezidi heritage nearly erased by ISIS, and are now being shared with Ezidis in Iraq and across the diaspora.
Duhok FC removed the sacred Ezidi sun symbol from their new shirt under pressure from Islamist voices. Eleven years after the 2014 genocide, hatred and cultural erasure persist, and the Ezidi identity is still denied recognition.
Iraq has begun the long-delayed excavation of the Khasfa mass grave near Mosul, a vast sinkhole where ISIS executed and buried thousands during its rule. Believed to hold at least 4,000 victims — including Ezidis, soldiers, and civilians — the site is one of the largest and most complex in modern Iraqi history. Forensic teams face immense challenges, but the work offers families of the missing a fragile hope for answers and dignity after more than a decade of silence.
On 12 August 2025, the remains of 22 Ezidi victims of ISIS were returned to Sinjar for burial following DNA identification in Baghdad. This marks the seventh official handover since 2021, as authorities continue to exhume and identify victims from mass graves across the region. The process underscores the scale of the atrocities committed during ISIS’s 2014 assault and the ongoing efforts to allow families to bury their loved ones according to Ezidi tradition and the faith of Sharfadin.
On August 3, 2014, the Ezidi people of Sinjar were targeted for extermination by ISIS. Thousands were killed, enslaved, and displaced. The genocide aimed to erase not only lives, but identity, culture, and the ancient faith of Sharfadin.
Eleven years later, justice remains out of reach. Sinjar is still unsafe. Survivors are still waiting. And Iraq has yet to formally recognize the genocide—blocked by those who try to claim the Ezidis as their own.
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Eleven years after the Ezidi genocide, survivors are still waiting—for justice, for reparations, and for meaningful support. This event in Washington, DC brought Ezidi voices and policymakers together to ask: what will it take to finally move from commemoration to action?
In a significant step toward holding perpetrators accountable, an Iraqi court has sentenced a former ISIS member to death for his involvement in the kidnapping of Ezidis during the 2014 genocide in Sinjar. The individual was found guilty of participating in the armed attacks and mass abductions that targeted the Ezidi people in northwestern Iraq.
Humanity walks through history carrying the ashes of its own crimes. Every stone laid at memorials like Tsitsernakaberd whispers of lives extinguished and of promises broken — never again, we say, yet again and again, we fail. As the eternal flame burns for the Armenians of 1915, it casts a shadow that reaches Sinjar, where the Ezidi people still suffer the consequences of the genocide ISIS unleashed in 2014. Eleven years later, the wounds remain unhealed, deepened by betrayal, neglect, and cynical politics. How many more memorials must we build before we finally understand that remembrance is not enough — justice and protection must follow, or the cycle will never end?
The Imperial War Museum in London opened Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s first major exhibition on wartime sexual violence, running through November 2. It includes testimony and artefacts from Ezidi women enslaved by ISIS, alongside other global cases, raising awareness of survivors’ struggle for justice. The Free Ezidi Foundation contributed to the exhibition.
Two former Ezidi women enslaved by ISIS expose the dark past of Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, warning the West not to trust a man who once walked among jihadi commanders and presided over unspeakable horrors. Their testimony challenges the narrative of reform and calls for vigilance against repeating history.
