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.
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 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.
Bagdad — Les forces de sécurité irakiennes ont arrêté deux hommes accusés de s’être fait passer pour des conseillers du Premier ministre et d’avoir escroqué le peuple ézidi en leur promettant faussement un recrutement militaire, a confirmé mardi la Sécurité nationale. Les arrestations ont eu lieu à Bagdad à la suite Read more
Baghdad — Iraqi security forces have apprehended two men accused of impersonating advisers to the prime minister and swindling Ezidis with false promises of military recruitment, the National Security Service confirmed on 22nd July 2025. The arrests were carried out in Baghdad following a covert operation that exposed the scheme. Investigators Read more
L’humanité traverse l’histoire en portant les cendres de ses propres crimes. Chaque pierre posée dans des mémoriaux comme celui de Tsitsernakaberd murmure des vies éteintes et des promesses trahies — plus jamais ça, disons-nous, et pourtant, encore et encore, nous échouons. Tandis que la flamme éternelle brûle pour les Arméniens de 1915, elle projette une ombre jusqu’à Sinjar, où le peuple ézidi souffre encore des conséquences du génocide déclenché par l’État islamique en 2014. Onze ans plus tard, les blessures demeurent béantes, aggravées par la trahison, la négligence et des jeux politiques cyniques. Combien de mémoriaux faudra-t-il encore ériger avant que nous comprenions enfin que le souvenir ne suffit pas — que la justice et la protection doivent suivre, faute de quoi le cycle ne prendra jamais fin ?
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.
Efforts to trace thousands of Ezidis abducted during the 2014 Sinjar genocide remain stalled amid political inertia and structural obstacles, a new report reveals. More than a decade after the Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Ezidi people in northern Iraq, the search for those still missing has yielded only Read more
The Center Genocide in Kosovo – An Open Wound has strongly criticized the Basic Court of Pristina for convicting former ISIS fighter Murat Dërnjanin of crimes against humanity, rather than genocide, despite clear international findings that ISIS committed genocide against the Ezidi people in Iraq. On July 4, 2025, the Basic Court of Read more
Earlier this year, the United States dismantled its foreign aid agency, USAID, cutting billions of dollars in humanitarian and development support in Iraq. This decision has already left some of Iraq’s most vulnerable—like the Ezidi people of Sinjar—at risk of losing critical services essential to their survival and recovery.
On 30 June 2025, the months-long Hamburg event series “Ten years after the genocide against the Ezidis | Remembering – Coming to terms – Consequences” came to a close. Since August 2024, Women for Justice e. V., Interkulturelle Werkstatt e. V., and the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg had organised a diverse programme to mark Read more
Le Comité diplomatique du Mouvement des Femmes Ézidies Libres (TAJÊ) a lancé un appel urgent au président irakien et à plusieurs instances internationales, réclamant l’identification de 19 femmes ézidies brûlées vives par l’État islamique (EI) à Mossoul en 2016. Le mouvement exige également que cette atrocité soit officiellement reconnue comme un acte de féminicide.
The Diplomatic Committee of the Ezidi Free Women’s Movement (TAJÊ) has issued an urgent appeal to the Iraqi President and key international bodies, calling for the identification of 19 Ezidi women burned alive by ISIS in Mosul in 2016. The movement is also demanding that the atrocity be officially recognized as an act of feminicide.
Il est absurde, ignorant, et signe d’un QI très bas de penser que l’on peut déterminer l’identité ethnique d’un peuple sur la base de préjugés politiques. Un Êzîde s’identifie par son identité ethnique, religieuse, culturelle et linguistique.
It is bizarre, uneducated, and a sign of very low IQ if people think they can decide the ethnic identity of a group based on political bias. An Ezidi is identified through their ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic identity.