Country: Iraq

Group: Shabak

Date Finalized: 10/25/2021

Team: Li-Chen Hou (lead),Hannah Goldman, Johanna McCombs, Deneb Bobadilla, Nuri Son

            Shabaks are an ethnic minority community in Iraq.  Like other Iraq minorities,  ISIS has targeted Shabak women for sexual assault and forced them to get married to ISIS fighters (McKay, 2021). On August 13rd 2014, a joint statement issued by SRSG/SVC Zainab Hawa Bangura and SRSG for Iraq Nickolay Mladenov strongly condemned ISIS’s brutal behavior against women and emphasized sexual violence violated human rights (PAX, 2020, p.38).

            The data quality is a 2. Some credible evidence shows that Shabaks’ women faced the threatens of sexual assault.

Sources

  1. Bor, G. (2019). Reforming Legal Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. LSE Middle East Centre Blog. 
  2. Lalani, M. (2010). Still Targeted: Continued Persecution of Iraq’s Minorities. Minority Rights Group International.
  3. McKay, H. (2021, March 5). The ISIS War Crime Iraqi Turkmen Won’t Talk About. New Lines Magazine. https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-isis-war-crime-iraqi-turkmen-wont-talk-about/
  4. PAX. (2020). Crimes of Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls from 2014 to 2018. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Iraq 2003–2018, 38–46.
  5. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, October 22). Shabaks. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaks