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Khalaf

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2023-08-25
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  1. “I hope that next year those stories and statistics will not need to be repeated. The fact that those stories and statistics have been presented for 10 years shows that the situation is still the same and that not much has changed on the ground.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  2. “Ten years have passed, and people are still living in camps of displaced persons in the heat of the summer and in the cold of the winter. I hope the 15 States members of the Security Council will send representatives to spend just 10 hours in those camps and experience the cruelty that the displaced Yazidis have been experiencing for 10 full years. The Da’esh elements who committed the genocide were not only Iraqis; they were from multiple countries. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the international community to restore the rights and dignity of the genocide victims. I am grateful that the Council is listening with sympathy to our stories — mine and those of Nadia Murad and others. However, that will not deliver justice. It will not repair the damage if there is no action on the ground.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  3. “That is an affront to the suffering of Yazidi women and victims of the Yazidi genocide. We call on the Security Council to work with the Iraqi Government to ensure that the Da’esh elements are not included in that decision. I would like to call for more international support for female survivors and victims’ families. Reparations are not only financial. Achieving justice is also very important and so is the initiative by some Council members and many States to form the Global Coalition against Da’esh in order to combat Da’esh militarily. I hope that the Council will take steps to allocate funds to an international construction fund that will support the rebuilding of Sinjar so that the displaced persons, in particular women, can return to their homes in safety and dignity.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  4. “That, in itself, is an achievement on the path to ensuring justice for the Yazidi victims. We thank the Security Council for such resolutions. Those efforts and the efforts of the German Federal Court of Justice to hold the perpetrators accountable are highly appreciated, but we know they are not enough. We need further international efforts to hold more criminals accountable and to establish tribunals to investigate and to prosecute the crimes against women. I would like to inform the Council that I and many other Yazidi women are prepared to travel to tribunals to deliver our testimonies. That is possible and reasonable with the Council’s support. I would also like to note that the Iraqi Parliament is currently discussing the granting of general amnesty for prisoners and thousands of Da’esh elements and their affiliates.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  5. “In my view, they should also have the right to seek asylum in States of their choosing because they have survived genocide and continued violations and have fled religious persecution. Da’esh and Al-Qaida have committed all forms of sexual violence against women. That cannot be denied. It became publicly known when the world learned of the crimes Da’esh committed against Yazidi women. More efforts are needed to put an end to sexual violence and to hold accountable those responsible for the crimes against women. The Security Council played a great and historic role in establishing the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant through resolution 2379 (2017), which recognized that what the Yazidis have suffered at the hands of Da’esh amounts to genocide.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  6. “No real efforts — locally or internationally — are being made to resolve the displacement issue and to provide mechanisms that allow displaced persons to return to their homes in dignity and safety. The prolonged displacement leads to problems and challenges psychologically and educationally, in particular for women. They reach a point of despair and lose hope for the present and the future. That is the situation for many communities around the world, including the Yazidis, who are experiencing their tenth year of displacement. All those issues are indicators of the increased number of migrants. They have a legitimate right to seek a safe haven where their religious and racial identities are respected and protected.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  7. “If Da’esh is no longer active on the ground, where are those persons now? With whom are they living and in which State? The areas and countries are known, but real efforts to locate and free those persons are missing. Very sadly, 70 per cent of Yazidis remain displaced in camps that lack the basic requirements needed to live in dignity. After 10 years, most tents have still not been changed. Council members may wonder why they remain in camps. The reason is because their home areas are not ready yet for their return. Their areas are still witnessing military, political and security conflicts. No efforts are being made to provide fair reparations. Challenges continue without formal interventions by the State.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  8. “Many States around the world, without naming names, have offered a lot to our community through their recognition of the genocide and by sending humanitarian assistance to the camps. However, the current reality requires significant efforts and assistance to achieve justice and to hold Da’esh accountable in international tribunals. There is still much to be done to ensure the safe and dignified return of displaced persons, including searching for the abductees who remain in captivity. The suffering will continue as long as armed conflict, wars, displacement and forced migration continue. The violence can be brought to an end only by ensuring justice and the rule of law. Our community continues to live in genocide, which is in its tenth year. Approximately 2,700 persons remain missing with unknown fate, including women and children.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  9. “Mine is a message of humanity and a plea for addressing the suffering of women in vulnerable and minority communities who have met violence time and again without mechanisms of protection. Violence against women in the Middle East, including in Iraq, is not a new phenomenon, nor did it emerge with Da’esh. It existed at the time of Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, who abused women as easy prey. I come before the Security Council today strongly and bravely, not representing myself alone but supported by my family and the Yazidi community as well as the local and international communities, without whose support for Yazidi women, I would not be speaking in the Council today.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  10. “It is likely that Council members have heard about what happened to my people on 3 August 2014, when Da’esh forces raided the Yazidi areas of Sinjar. I know that most countries have been informed about those days and the crimes that were committed. Nevertheless, at present, the genocide continues, and we are currently living in the tenth year of genocide. I will refresh Council members’ memories with evidence that proves that further efforts were not made to end the genocide and bring forth justice. We must start by fully recognizing the genocide and developing an environment safe for the return of Yazidis to their homes. It is in the name of humanity, peace and justice that I address the Security Council today.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  11. “However, fate saw otherwise. My dreams were ended at the hands and in the prisons of Da’esh. Instead of studying, I became a slave. Instead of forming a family, I was sold and bought by elements of Da’esh like thousands of other Yazidi women who have suffered the worst crimes during and after our abductions from Sinjar by Da’esh. I do not need to tell Council members more stories about the suffering of Yazidi women. Before me, Ms. Nadia Murad addressed our plight in the Council (see S/PV.9016), and many Yazidi women have spoken out about the sexual and ethnic-based violence and other forms of physical suffering that were perpetrated by Da’esh and other terrorist groups against thousands of Yazidi women. Many of those women, not having been liberated until now, continue to face this suffering.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source

  12. “I am grateful for this opportunity to address the Security Council on behalf of Yazidi women, who have suffered violence and oppression by Da’esh, and of women of other marginalized communities around the world. I also thank the United States delegation to the Security Council for inviting me to deliver this message today. At the outset, before entering into the details of my message, I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Farida Khalaf, President of Farida Global Organization. I am a Yazidi survivor of Da’esh prisons from the village of Kojo. Like many other Yazidi women, I was abducted by elements of Da’esh in August 2014. I suffered all forms of violence — physical, emotional and mental. In my 20s, I was a girl who dreamed of finishing school, forming a family and living a simple life in my village in Shingal.”

    2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source