Up to 200 of the 3,500 Yazidi women who returned home after the 2014 onslaught by IS escaped with children, according to Zeynep Kaya, a research fellow at the London School of Economics Middle East Research Centre. Although draft legislation currently before Iraqi parliament seeks to redress some aspects of Yazidi suffering, including the rights of female survivors, it does not contain exemptions for children born of rape. “So we believe these women and children need to be respected and helped,” Burjus told DW. However, most women “will probably just give up their children and babies and go back to their community; or just leave the country,” she said. “They want to go back to their communities but they have to give up their children.

Source: Egypt Independent April 30, 2019 16:18 UTC