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Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability

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Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com In January 2025, Iraq appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council for its fourth Universal Periodic Review — a moment that should have marked a turning point. It did not. The UPR process, designed to hold governments accountable to their international human rights obligations, produced 263 recommendations from 93 countries. Iraq accepted 181 of them. On paper, that looks like progress. In practice, it continues a pattern that anyone who has watched Iraq's human rights record knows well: accept the recommendations, ignore the implementation. What the UN Recommended The recommendations issued to Iraq in January 2025 were not new. Many had appeared in the previous cycle — in 2019 — and in the cycle before that. They included: Imposing a moratorium on executions and ending the use of th...
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Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection

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Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com They survived enslavement. They escaped. They came home. And then, for many Yazidi women who returned to their communities after years in ISIS captivity, the ordeal continued — not at the hands of their captors, but within their own families and communities. This is the part of the Yazidi story that receives far less attention than the abductions, the rescue operations, and the political declarations. The return. And what happens after it. The Scale of What Happened In August 2014, ISIS launched a coordinated attack on the Yazidi homeland in northwestern Iraq. Thousands of women and girls were abducted and traded into sexual slavery across ISIS-held territories in Iraq and Syria. By the most careful estimates, more than 6,000 Yazidi women and children were captured in the initial wave. Years of rescue o...
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