Haider Elias, President, Yazda, joins the Middle East File to discuss We Cannot Return: Collapsed Security Threatens the Future of Yazidis & Minorities in Sinjar co-authored by Yazda and The Zovighian Partnership and published by the Wilson Center.

This first paper in a two-part series presents and recommends immediate solutions to strengthening security in Sinjar. Published by the Wilson Center, the series aims to equip national and international stakeholders with community-led and actionable recommendations to enable political support for all minority communities in Sinjar.

Related:

• Engaging with Religious Inequality in Humanitarian Response: A Case Study from Iraq 2014–2019
• “State Responsibility and the Genocide of the Yazidis” (Report)
• Iraq: Stabilising the Contested District of Sinjar