Yazidis of Iraq and Kurdistan seek to include amendments to the law of missing persons
Yazidi activists have stepped up their efforts to amend one of the laws issued by the Kurdistan Regional Parliament on missing persons to include a dossier of missing Yazidis and individuals abducted by ISIS.
The Yazidis ' efforts are aimed at amending Law No. 3 of 1999, issued by the Kurdistan Parliament, which concerns missing Kurdish citizens between 1980 and 1991 as a result of the Ba'ath regime's policies and campaigns in Iraq.
ISIL militants took control of the Sinjar district in August 2014, they abducted 6,417 Yazidis, more than 3,500 of them were released, and the fate of more than two thousand 700 people is still unknown, according to the latest statistics of the Kurdistan regional government.
According to the Kurdistan Missing Persons Act, the families of a missing person are entitled to receive a death certificate after four years of their disappearance.
Representatives of Yazidi organizations in Sinjar said that they had held many meetings and seminars with government officials, lawyers and families of missing Yazidis about the amendments to the law. The final version of the project will be presented in the near future. Yazidi activists hope that the missing Yazidis clause will be added to the law and that all members of Parliament will vote for it.
The representative of the Yazidis in the Kurdistan Parliament, Hadiya Murad, said:
"The Law on Missing Persons consists of five paragraphs, each of which concerns missing Kurds, so we want to add another paragraph to the law that includes Yazidis who have been missing since August 3, 2014."
On March 1, 2021, the Iraqi Parliament approved the Yazidi Women Survivors Act, which provided financial and moral compensation to women who had been abducted and subjected to various forms of violence, in order to ensure a decent life for them and to reintegrate them into society.
Baadari Karavan-Erbil
Translated by David Babaev
Tags: #yazidisinfo #newsyazidi #aboutyazidi #ezidi
Yazidis of Iraq and Kurdistan seek to include amendments to the law of missing persons
Yazidi activists have stepped up their efforts to amend one of the laws issued by the Kurdistan Regional Parliament on missing persons to include a dossier of missing Yazidis and individuals abducted by ISIS.
The Yazidis ' efforts are aimed at amending Law No. 3 of 1999, issued by the Kurdistan Parliament, which concerns missing Kurdish citizens between 1980 and 1991 as a result of the Ba'ath regime's policies and campaigns in Iraq.
ISIL militants took control of the Sinjar district in August 2014, they abducted 6,417 Yazidis, more than 3,500 of them were released, and the fate of more than two thousand 700 people is still unknown, according to the latest statistics of the Kurdistan regional government.
According to the Kurdistan Missing Persons Act, the families of a missing person are entitled to receive a death certificate after four years of their disappearance.
Representatives of Yazidi organizations in Sinjar said that they had held many meetings and seminars with government officials, lawyers and families of missing Yazidis about the amendments to the law. The final version of the project will be presented in the near future. Yazidi activists hope that the missing Yazidis clause will be added to the law and that all members of Parliament will vote for it.
The representative of the Yazidis in the Kurdistan Parliament, Hadiya Murad, said:
"The Law on Missing Persons consists of five paragraphs, each of which concerns missing Kurds, so we want to add another paragraph to the law that includes Yazidis who have been missing since August 3, 2014."
On March 1, 2021, the Iraqi Parliament approved the Yazidi Women Survivors Act, which provided financial and moral compensation to women who had been abducted and subjected to various forms of violence, in order to ensure a decent life for them and to reintegrate them into society.
Baadari Karavan-Erbil
Translated by David Babaev
Tags: #yazidisinfo #newsyazidi #aboutyazidi #ezidi
