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Yazidi women kept as slaves by IS appeal to UN to intervene in their fight for compensation

United Nations IS Australia Torture Philippe Sands KC United States

Clothing worn by a Yazidi girl enslaved by Islamic State militants — A 2016 photo of clothing worn by a Yazidi girl enslaved by IS militants, collected by a Yazidi activist to document IS crimes against the community. Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

Five Yazidi women held as slaves by an Islamic State fighter are appealing to the UN to intervene in their case for compensation in a move lawyers hope will help fix a “lawless” global system that is failing torture survivors.

The women, captured in Iraq in 2014, were taken to Syria as slaves by IS fighters, including the Australian citizen Khaled Sharrouf, who was pictured standing next to his young son holding a severed human head.

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