Sara Bowcutt, our Managing Director, and Khalida Lazgeen, our Program Officer in Iraq, discussed with Nuala McGovern of BBC the current situation of Yazidi women in Iraq.
It is 10 years since the Islamic State group committed an act of genocide against the Yazidi population in northern Iraq. Thousands of women were captured and sold as sex slaves. Now, the women are being told to leave the Internally Displaced People’s camps and return to their homes in Sinjar. The organisation Women for Women International is trying to help the women. Their Managing Director, Sara Bowcutt, and Programme Officer in Iraq, Khalida Khalo Lazgeen, who is Yazidi herself, join Nuala to discuss the situation.