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Global Justice Center Urges International Criminal Court to Investigate ISIS’s Genocide against Yazidi Women and Girls
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 22, 2015
[NEW YORK, NY] – ISIS systematically perpetrates crimes against religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria, including the Yazidi people. Yazidi men and elderly women are killed, boys are recruited and converted and young women and girls are repeatedly raped, bought and sold as sex slaves, forcibly converted, married, and impregnated. As many as 3,000 girls and women remain in captivity.
European Union Divorces Itself from US Abortion Ban: Anti-US Helms Amendment Attached to 2016 EU Budget
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 18, 2015
[NEW YORK, NY] – The EU just approved its 2016 budget containing the first ever anti-Helms Amendment. The US Helms amendment imposes abortion restrictions on all US foreign aid, which the Obama Administration implements as a total ban on abortion including medical services for girls and women raped in war.
Global Justice Center sends Letter to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC Asking Them to Investigate Genocide and Gender Crimes Against Yazidi Women and Girls
December News Update: Yazidi Survivor of ISIS/Daesh Testifies to Genocide at UN
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who was held captive by ISIS and managed to escape, bravely told her story to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.