Londoners protest against ISIS massacres in Iraq. Demotix/Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.
One year on from the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the senior UN official on the issue, Zainab Bangura, has said in an interview with AFP that Yazidi and other young women abducted by ISIS in Syria and Iraq are being traded “for as little as a pack of cigarettes."
The summit
Even if it has happened only once, even if it is not actually factual but is just a story she’s been told, it tells you something awful is happening. You could not want a sharper reminder about the issue. The global summit on sexual violence in conflict was held in London 10-12 June 2014. Hosted by the UK Foreign Office under William Hague, it headlined all around the world not only because of the issue but thanks to the presence and work of Angelina Jolie. As the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura co-signed the “Statement of Action” with Hague and Jolie.
