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Owner: Yazidi Minority and Yazidi Women

owner: Over 6,000 women and girls were taken captive by Daesh Islamic State fighters, and many remain in captivity, according to National Observer. They were forced into domestic and sexual servitude, passed from owner to owner like chattel across Iraq and Syria. It was a profound moment of recognition for the sexual violence perpetrated against Iraq's Yazidi minority. Some, he said, were as young as nine and were raped up to 20 times daily. In Canada, Rev. The Yazidi women were described as the most traumatized group yet to be admitted to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.