Vian Dakhil, whose impassioned plea in the Iraqi Parliament brought the plight of the Yazidi people to the world's attention, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a UN report recognizing that ISIS is committing a genocide against the Yazidis. June 21, 2016.
Ms. Dakhil took the floor in the plenary of the UNHRC after its 4-member commission of inquiry presented its new report on the Yazidi genocide. She also appeared at a press conference organized by the association of UN correspondents in Geneva, which was filmed by Reuters TV.
Ms. Dakhil was invited to Switzerland by UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental human rights group, and will speak tomorrow on their behalf.
