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The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. [ 1 ][ 11 ][ 12 ] It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish -speaking people [ 13 ] who are indigenous to Kurdistan who practice Yazidism, an Iranian religion derived from the Indo ...
According to a press release by the United Nations Security Council on 19 June 2008, [2]. The Security Council today demanded the “immediate and complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence against civilians,” expressing its deep concern that, despite repeated condemnation, violence and sexual abuse of women and children trapped in war zones was not ...
t. e. Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence[ 1 ][ 2 ] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [ 3 ] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [ 4 ] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender ...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [a] (ICTR; French: Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Kinyarwanda: Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of ...
e. Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip has been enforced by multiple governments, militaries, and irregular militias throughout the area's history. A large proportion of the killings have been associated with broader violent conflicts. Many of the executions have be described as extrajudicial killings due to an incomplete or unaccountable ...
War crimes and human rights violations, committed by all warring parties, have been widespread throughout the Yemeni civil war. [1] This includes the two main groups involved in the ongoing conflict: forces loyal to the current Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (supported by the Saudi-Arabia-led coalition), and Houthis and other forces supporting Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni ...
The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into full-scale guerrilla warfare following clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in parts of western Iraq, and culminated in the Islamic State offensive into Iraq in June 2014, which ...
The Abolitionists. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. American Murder: The Family Next Door. The Apology (film) Asylum (2003 film) Audrie & Daisy.