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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women are war widows, and Women's rights organizations struggle against harassment and intimidation while they work to promote improvements to women's status in the law, in education, the workplace, and many other spheres of Iraqi life. Abusive practices such as honor killings and forced marriages remain problematic.
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 ...
As of June 2019, five people remained under ICC indictment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Among these, Haroun, al-Bashir, and Hussein were held in detention by Sudanese authorities, with an international legal obligation of either being transferred to the ICC or of being prosecuted for the same charges in Sudan under ...
t. e. The condition of human rights in the territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS) is considered to be among the worst in the world. [1][2][3][4] The Islamic State's policies included acts of genocide, [5][6][7] torture [8][9] and slavery. [10][11] The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) stated in November 2014 that the ...
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the ...
The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [ 1 ][ 2 ] were members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry ...
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Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...