I first met the Yazidi women taken captive by the Islamic ... in Kocho The Sinjar region had a range of different ethnic and religious groups living together in the area including Christians ...

"Throughout its history, the Kurdistan Region—with all its religious and ethnic communities—has suffered under some of the ...

On May 13, 2025, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the U.K. Parliament, a committee consisting of members of the upper and lower houses of the U.K. Parliament, published a report looking into the ...

Syria’s deeply flawed interim Constitution should be replaced with one that reflects our values: freedom, equality and ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow is deeply concerned by what he said was ethnic cleansing ...

Two months later, in August, the group launched a brutal assault on the Yazidi community in the Shingal (Sinjar) district, resulting in the abduction of 6,417 Yazidi women and children.

The three major ethnic groups- Hausa in the North, Yoruba in the West, and Igbo in the East-each had distinct cultures, languages, and religious affiliations. The North was predominantly Muslim ...

Both groups emphasised the need for a long-term solution to the ongoing ethnic tensions in the northeastern state. More than 260 people have been killed and thousands left homeless in the violence ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have drawn intense criticism after reclassifying people of the Han ethnic group as the island's "other" population in its official ...

The peaceful life of the schoolgirl, who had grown up in a loving family as part of the Yazidi community in Sinjar ... flying the flag of Jihad or Holy War. "Groups like that were the beginning ...

China is a united multi-ethnic nation of 56 ethnic groups. As the majority of the population is of the Han ethnic group (accounting for 91.6 percent of the national total population), China’s ...