A. My colleague kent hill who will be on a later panel is sitting to my left and is going to kick us off. It will be awkward when we make the exchange. And a terribly important panel. Thank you for coming back. The next panel in Civil Society. The big issue of the day, domestic minorities within the Islamic State. I will be up here for a few minutes, i have the privilege of introducing our four panelists. We turn to each of them, we have five minutes or so, to give their name, organization and to say a little bit about how they and their organization are trying to address this question in general terms. I will turn to murad ismael who will introduce himself and we will go on from there. This organization is it working now . Working . One second please. Better to be here. Global Organization Established after august 3, 2014, when the Islamic State attacked our community. Worked with a group to create and provide different services, and a social program, in addition to work international
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The UK government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the ISIS group committed "acts of genocide" against the Yazidi people in 2014. The Yazidis where target of ISIS extremists and were subjected to massacres, forced marriages and sex slavery during the militants' 2014-15 rule in the northern Iraq province of Sinjar, the Yazidis' traditional home. The UK foreign office made the announcement ahead of events to mark "the nine year anniversary of atrocities" committed by ISIS against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority in Iraq.