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Iraq: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 2021 Format UN Agencies Announce Projects to Support Yazidis In April 2021, two UN agencies in Iraq announced new projects to assist survivors of the Yazidi genocide. The Yazidis are a religious minority whose beliefs and practices span thousands of years, the majority of whom have historically lived in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, near the Syrian border. On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who considered the Yazidis to be heretics launched a sustained attack on the Sinjar region as part of their larger campaign to capture territory in Iraq and impose their extremist ideology. Reports soon emerged of atrocities being committed against the Yazidis: men were tortured, killed or forced to convert to Islam; women and girls were sold at slave markets and held in sexual captivity by ISIL fighters; and young boys were forcibly taken from their families and pushed into service as child soldiers. Thousands died, thousa

International organization for migrationIraq ministry of justiceUnited nationsAnnounce projectsIslamic stateKurdistan regionAlthough iraqiInternational organizationYazidi female survivors lawUnited nations investigative teamPromote accountabilityCrimes committedசர்வதேச ஆர்கநைஸேஶந் க்கு இடம்பெயர்வுஇராக் அமைச்சகம் ஆஃப் நீதிஒன்றுபட்டது நாடுகள்இஸ்லாமிய நிலை