Human Rights Watch Interview: These Yezedi Girls Escaped ISIS. Now What?‏

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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS April 16, 2015 Follow us on:

Interview: These Yezedi Girls Escaped ISIS. Now What? Photo © 2015 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch Last August, the world watched in horror as the extremist armed group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, attacked Iraq’s Yezidi community. Thousands fled without food or water into the nearby Sinjar mountains, but ISIS fighters waylaid many, executing men and abducting thousands of people, mainly women and children. Rumors of forced marriage and enslavement of Yezidi girls and women swirled, and were later confirmed as a trickle of women and girls – number into the hundreds – escaped. Human Rights Watch researchers Samer Muscati and Rothna Begum interviewed 20 of these women and girls in Iraq. This is what they learned. Read more » share on:

In Mali, Lawlessness, Abuses Imperil Population Rampant criminality and attacks by armed groups and abuses by the security forces are putting ordinary people in central and northern Mali at risk. Armed groups need to stop their abuses and Mali’s government should take urgent steps to reverse this trend, which threatens the security and rule-of-law gains of the past two years.  See the Latest News in Africa »  share on:

Dispatches: Silencing a Veteran Chinese Journalist By Maya Wang  Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu has already survived the Cultural Revolution, becoming a leading political journalist during the turbulent but hopeful 1980s, and previous stints in jail. On Friday, a Beijing court will present the 71-year-old with another obstacle when it announces a verdict against her on charges that she “illegally provided state secrets abroad.”  See the Latest News in Asia »  share on:

In Serbia, Police Abusing Migrants, Asylum Seekers Migrants and asylum seekers have described violent assaults, threats, insults, and extortion at the hands of Serbia’s police. Serbian authorities should be protecting asylum seekers and immigrants, including children fleeing war and persecution, not allowing the police to victimize them.  See the Latest News in Europe/Central Asia >>  share on:

Dispatches: Boston Bombing Trial Highlights Guantanamo Dysfunction By Laura Pitter  Just two years after the horrific Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013, a US federal court convicted 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on 30 criminal counts. Though Tsarnaev has yet to be sentenced, many victims and their families were grateful that a verdict had been reached. Compare that to the plight of the victims of another major attack on US soil – at New York’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  See the Latest News in the United States >>  share on:

VIDEO     Israeli settlement farms in the West Bank are using Palestinian child labor. Watch Now » PHOTOS     These Yezidi women and girls survived an attack on their community by ISIS.  View Now » TWEET of the WEEK Good to see @obyezeks on @TIME list of 100 Most Influential People #TIME100 #BringBackOurGirls http://ti.me/1zkiwCy  Follow Andrew Stroehlein »