News Deeply - Escaping From ISIS: Freedom And Justice For Yazidi Women And Girls

In an article published as part of News Deeply’s “Women and Jihad Series”,  Alexandra Bradford meets with Yazidi women and men working to free thousands of Yazidi women and girls captured, enslaved, and abused by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Legal and Strategy Analyst Shabnam Mojtahedi speaks about the importance of documenting such violations of international humanitarian law to transitional justice. “Documenting those violations is paramount because it makes them harder to ignore in a future justice process,” says Mojtahedi.

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