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The annual US Trafficking in Persons Report, which was released July 27, put a significant focus on the atrocities suffered over the past year by the Kurdish Yezidi community. The report found that a large number of Yezidi women and children are being trafficked by the Islamic State organization and many are still in ISIS captivity.
The report's section on Iraq, which was designated a Tier 2 country, said that women and girls who have escaped ISIS captivity are suffering psychologically because many were physically exploited, impregnated and trafficked and now live with crippling emotional scars.
"Women and girls who escape ISIL captivity and become displaced in the country remain vulnerable to various forms of exploitation, including re-trafficking. ISIL also abducts and forcibly uses children in combat and support roles, including as human shields, informants, bomb makers, and suicide bombers; some of these children are as young as 8 years old and some are mentally disabled," the report reads, using a different name for ISIS.
source: rudaw.net
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