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| Formation | August 28, 2014 |
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| Founded at | Texas U.S. |
| Type | Nonprofit organization Non-governmental organization (NGO) |
| Purpose | Humanitarian Activism Advocacy Prevent Genocide |
| Headquarters | United States United Kingdom Iraq Sweden |
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| Leader | Natia Navrouzov |
| Website | Yazda.org |
Yazda: Global Yazidi Organization (/ˈjɑːzdə/, Arabic: يزدا; Kurdish: یەزدا ,Yazda), is a United States-based global Yazidi nonprofit, non-governmental organization (NGO) advocacy, aid, and relief organization. Yazda was established to support the Yazidi, especially in northern Iraq, specifically Sinjar and Nineveh Plain, and northeastern Syria, where the Yazidi community has, as part of a deliberate "military, economic, and political strategy," been the focus of a genocidal campaign by ISIL[1]: 3 that included mass murder, the separation of families, forced religious conversions, forced marriages, sexual assault, physical assault, torture, kidnapping, and slavery.[2][3][4]
- ^ Kikoler, Naomi (12 November 2015). "Iraq Bearing Witness Trip Report: "Our Generation is Gone" The Islamic State's Targeting of Iraqi Minorities in Ninewa" (PDF). Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Iraq: Protect Mass Graves. Evidence of Possible ISIS Genocide Endangered". Human Rights Watch. Dohuk. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Callimachi, Rukmini (13 August 2015). "ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
- ^ Begikhani, Nazand (30 October 2014). "Opinion: Why ISIS's treatment of Yazidi women is genocide - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 24 September 2016.