Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL

Iraq asked for international help on Wednesday to collect and preserve evidence of crimes by Islamic State militants and said it is working with Britain to draft a United Nations Security Council resolution to establish the investigation, according to Reuters.

The European Parliament on Oct. 27 awarded its Sakharov Prize to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two Iraqi Yazidi women who were held as sex slaves by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and have campaigned for human rights since escaping. 

Famous human rights lawyer and wife of Hollywood star George Clooney, Amal Alamuddin Clooney is reportedly visiting a refuge hotspot in the northern Greek city of Serres. According to local media, the 38-year-old activist, who is part of the London-based Doughty Street Chambers, was seen at the hotspot speaking to Yazidi refugees.

BELGRADE - Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been generating millions of dollars through the sale of women and children abducted from the regions it has conquered.

A case concerning claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants "sold" Yazidi women and children, which ended in the acquittal of the suspects in 16 days, has drawn reactions from the bar association in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, which said key evidence in the case had not been examined.

The White House on March 17 said it was ready to support an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into alleged genocide carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq.

Asylum seekers who have fled conflicts in Iraq and Syria are still not formally recognized as refugees in Turkey, while Yazidis are not afforded equal rights, a new report by the Diyarbak?r Bar Association Children's Rights Center has found.

One eight-year-old was repeatedly sold and raped, while another girl set herself on fire to make herself less attractive to her jihadist captors. These are only two of the more than 1,400 horror stories German doctor Jan ?lhan K?z?lhan has heard first-hand from Yazidi women and girls once enslaved by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in Iraq.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Dec. 29 said that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.

Terrifying photographs show the suffocating spaces where dozens of Yazidi women were trapped underground in an ISIS prison in horrifying conditions.

Small panels on the surface of northern Syrian desert are the only sign of the horrific prison where the women were forced to live.