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Filtering by: Committee Member White, Jessica Date issued sim 2016-05-24 Degree Field Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Investigating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Genocide against Indigenous Yazidi Women and Girls by ISIS in Iraq

Creator:

Hassen, Suha Hazeem

Abstract:

In the current armed conflicts that have become known to the international community since the sweeping attacks on northern Iraq on Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) perpetrated extreme forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against a small ancient ethno-religious conservative Yazidi group. ISIS has used SGBV against...

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Masters Thesis