Rally held to protest the fate of thousands of Yazidi women abducted by ISIS

Hundreds of Yazidis, most of them women, gathered in Iraqi Kurdistan on International Women's Day to draw the attention of the international community to the fate of thousands of young women and girls who have been held captive by ISIS for about two years.

Susan Safar, the organizer of the rally, says: “We want to tell the entire international 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 21st century, but we still see women being sold as slaves. We have returned to the Middle Ages.”

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