
Umm Diya* clasps her hands together as we sit down, physically perturbed to be discussing something so painful – and to be recounting her story to men once again.
Old sofas and thin mattresses fill the room in this shelter in northern Iraq. It is currently home to a small number of women who, between 2014 and 2017, were abducted, tortured and raped by members of ISIL (ISIS) when the group controlled this area.