Rally Held in Protest Against the Fate of Thousands of Yazidi Women Abducted by ISIS

Hundreds of Yazidis, most of them women, gathered in Kurdistan, Iraq on the occasion of International Women’s Day to draw global attention to the fate of thousands of women and girls who have been held captive by ISIS for the past two years.

Suzan Safar, the organizer of this rally, said about this: “We want to tell the entire global community that Yazidi women have been killed, raped, and sold as slaves in the market for more than a year and a half. We live in the twenty-first century, yet we still witness women being sold as slaves. We have returned to the Middle Ages.”

These women were abducted by ISIS during the occupation of Sinjar in the summer of 2014.