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Isis Genocide: Yazidi and Minority Group

isis genocide: Now, the government must develop a quick action plan that steps outside the traditional United Nations process, according to Huffington Post Canada. Two Yazidi women are showin in Mosul, Iraq on April 15, 2015. Last month, the House of Commons unanimously adopted a Conservative motion to provide assistance and asylum to survivors of ISIS genocide, mainly from within the Yazidi ethnic minority group. Photo Bram Janssen/AP via CP The Yazidi genocide survivors are currently trapped in high-conflict areas in Northern Iraq or waiting in refugee camps in Syria, Greece and Turkey. Liberal MP and committee chair Borys Wrzesnewskyj said Canada could chart a new process for the world by helping the most vulnerable victims of atrocities outside the UN regime. On Thursday, MPs on the citizenship and immigration committee will hear about the biggest challenges, first from Canadian officials who were dispatched to northern Iraq on a fact-finding mission, then from German officials about their own experience helping to rescue Yazidi refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.