LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world has abandoned the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, leaving women and girls from the minority group to be brutalised at the hands of Islamic State, two Yazidi sisters told a conference in London.
"After 14 months the situation is the same, nothing has changed," said Vian Dakheel Saeed, the sole Yazidi member of Iraq's parliament. "Nobody supports us."
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