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Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region’s peshmerga forces and fighters from Yazidi minority holding Kurdish flag while entering the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 13, 2015 (AFP Photo/SafinHamed)
Activists Launch Campaign for Law on Iraqi Minority Rights
Baghdad – Activists and legal experts are launching a campaign to adopt a law that grants all Iraqi factions and minorities, which had long been mistreated, their rights. During a workshop of Masarat institution, the activists called for the spread of culture of...Caption:
Yazidi boy Emad, 5, has a jelly drink as he and his brother Murad (back), who was trained by ISIS, stand in a grocery at a refugee camp near the northern Iraqi city of Duhok April 19, 2016, Reuters
Iraqi Minorities Facing either Extinction or Exodus
A large portion of Iraq’s minorities are on the verge of disappearance after 13 years of war, campaigners warned on Monday. “The impact on minorities has been catastrophic. Saddam was terrible; the situation since is worse. Tens of thousands of minorities...Caption:
Libyan protesters gather outside the offices of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Party of Justice and Construction, in the Libyan capital Tripoli on July 27, 2013. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP PHOTO)
Libya’s Most Vulnerable
The Libyan General National Congress (GNC) finally made headway on the formation of the new constitution last month, though detractors representing Libya’s minorities may delay the process once again. The year-long saga of forming a new constitution has frustrated...Caption:
A merchant of the Uighur ethnic group sits outside his shop selling Muslim headwear in the old town of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, 24 May 2013. Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in China, make up about 40 per cent of the 21.8 million people in Xinjiang, a vast, ethnically divided region that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Tensions have been high between the Uighurs and the dominant Han Chinese as Uighurs complain of cultural and religious repression and claim that Han Chinese migrants enjoy the main benefits of develop. (EPA Photo)