Nareen Shammo

Nareen Shammo in Madrid in 2017.

Nareen Shammo (born 1986 in Bashiqa, Iraq) is a Yazidi investigative journalist and a human rights defender.[1]

Life

She studied English literature at the Al-Hadba University of Mosul, has worked as a journalist and TV producer, and currently campaigns for the rights of Yazidi women.[1]

Activism

In 2014 Nareen Shammo quit her TV job when she learnt that Islamic State was systematically kidnapping and enslaving women and girls in Iraq and became active in the liberation of captive Yazidi girls and women and in denouncing the genocide of Yazidis.[2] She has worked with the Initiative for Ezidis around the world and the Yazda Center.[3]

She was the first to speak out about the abuses against Yazidi women in the Kurdish regional parliament and call for their intervention.[4]

In 2015 Nareen Shammo was awarded the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize (Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis) of the German Die Linke party, for her outstanding work.[5][6][7][8][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Vogel, Sonja. "Verbrechen an jesidischen Frauen: "Wir sind im Irak nicht sicher"". die tageszeitung. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  2. ↑ "Ex-journalist is lonely lifeline for Yazidis sold into sex slavery". Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  3. 1 2 "Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2015 für Nareen Shammo : DIE LINKE". DIE LINKE (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  4. ↑ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Kampf um Sindschar: Kurden schlagen zurück | DW | 20.12.2014". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  5. ↑ "Die Menschenrechtsverbechen des "Islamischen Staates"". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  6. ↑ "Yazidi sex slaves 'forced to donate blood' to wounded Isis fighters". 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  7. ↑ "ISIS Captives Tell Of Rapes And Beatings, Plead For Help". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  8. ↑ "Nareen Shammo: One Woman vs. the Islamic State". Pink Jinn. 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
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