That the Parliament condemns the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the genocide perpetrated against Iraq’s Yazidi community, and denounces the sexual slavery of Yazidi women and girls that has taken place since ISIL’s unprovoked attack in August 2014 on Yazidi towns and villages, killing thousands of Yazidis and leading to thousands of abductions; notes that 72 mass graves have already been found around Mount Sinjar in Iraq, containing an estimated 15,000 bodies; further notes that dozens of slave markets exist in territories controlled by ISIL, generating millions of dollars for its illegitimate terrorist state and that, after two years, the UN estimates that 3,200 Yazidi women and children are still held captive by ISIL in horrific circumstances; urges the UK Government, as a member of the UN Security Council, to ensure the punishment of those who have committed such atrocities, in light of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, once ISIL is defeated, and believes that the UK Government should give what protection and help that it can to Yazidi women and girls following the initiative of Baden-Württemberg to host 1,100 rescued Yazidi women and children.
Supported by:
Clare Adamson, Tom Arthur, Bob Doris, James Dornan, John Finnie, Christine Grahame, Ross Greer, Clare Haughey, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Ben Macpherson, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Christina McKelvie, Pauline McNeill, Ash Regan, Maree Todd, David Torrance, Sandra White, Andy Wightman