Yazidi Women
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Almost 800 Yazidi women and girls who survived ISIS are now in Canada as refugeesThe Yazidis are a religious minority group of about 700,000 people that had mostly lived in northern Iraq near the Syrian border.PoliticsOct 5, 2017
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Former ISIS sex slave reunited with brother during emotional return to Iraq homeNadia Murad, the Yazidi human rights activist, visited her home village of Kocho in northern Iraq on Thursday, three years after being kidnapped and held as a sex slave by ISIS militants.WorldJun 2, 2017
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Who are the Yazidis and why is Canada bringing them in?The Liberal government has brought in more than 30,000 Syrian refugees. Only nine are members of the persecuted religious group whose members are being raped and tortured at the hands of ISIS.PoliticsOct 25, 2016
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Canada to welcome Yazidi refugees within months: John McCallumImmigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months.CanadaOct 24, 2016
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Rachael Harder learns first-hand about Yazidi genocide: ‘absolutely horrific’Rachael Harder, MP for Lethbridge, recently returned from a mission to Iraq and says Lethbridge would make a great place for the Yazidi women to call home.CanadaAug 5, 2016
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