Amal and Nadia Murad meet the UN Secretary General today NYC

Amal Clooney spent Friday back at the U.N. as she continues to fight for victims of ISIS militants.
Mrs Clooney, expecting twins with husband George, is pushing for the U.N. investigate Islamic State crimes including the sexual enslavement of her Yazidi clients.
Despite inclement weather in New York, the mother-to-be was flawless in a ruched dress and black heels as she met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday.
 She has been fighting for years while the United Nations has failed to act.
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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Friday
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Mrs Clooney is expecting twins later this year and has spent three days at the U.N. this week  
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Clooney represents Yazidi women victimized in Iraq and has asked the United Nations to investigate Islamic State crimes
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Mrs  Clooney was joined by Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by Islamic State militants
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Today, Friday is Nadia's 24th birthday. She now lives in Germany
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Mrs Clooney has said the attention her high profile relationship brings can be a good thing, as it shines a light on the fight she and Nadia are waging
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The British barrister paired the aubergine dress with matching earrings
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She urged Iraq and the world not to let the Islamic State 'get away with genocide'
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Nadia first spoke before the Security Council in 2015 and has become an advocate for the Yazidi
But one Iraqi Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by Islamic State militants says her advocacy for other victims has left her completely exhausted and frustrated that her captors have not faced justice.
Nadia Murad and her attorney Mrs Clooney appeared at a United Nations event on Thursday to ask that the crimes of Islamic State militants be investigated and prosecuted, and they criticized the international body for inaction.
Mrs Clooney urged Iraq and the world not to let the Islamic State 'get away with genocide.' 

Murad, who turned 24 on Friday, was among thousands of women and girls abducted, tortured and sexually abused by militant fighters in northwest Iraq in 2014.
She first spoke before the U.N. Security Council in 2015 and has become an advocate for the Yazidi, speaking to governments and appealing to the international community to act.
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Clooney spoke on Thursday at event on accountability for crimes committed by Islamic State


[size=10][size=18]Amal Clooney to Iraq: 'ISIS victims can't wait forever'




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In her speech at the U.N. event Murad said: 'I am physically and emotionally exhausted.... I have put my personal life aside to seek justice, rather than focusing on my own healing'
'It is very hard to come here every time, and nothing tangible takes place,' Murad told the Thomson Reuters Foundation after her appearance at the United Nations. 'It's very hard for the victims as well to hear there is no progress.'
Murad said she was abducted from her village in Iraq and taken to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul. She was tortured and repeatedly raped before she escaped three months later.
The Yazidi, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
In her speech at the U.N. event on accountability for crimes committed by Islamic State, the slight, soft-spoken Murad said: 'I am physically and emotionally exhausted.... I have put my personal life aside to seek justice, rather than focusing on my own healing.'
Six of Murad's family members, including a toddler not yet 3 years old, remain captives of Islamic State, and her sister-in-law escaped after nearly 30 months.
Murad said her advocacy has put others in her family in danger.
'I wish I could say this was worth it,' Murad said in her speech through a translator. 'My words, tears and my testimony have not made you act. I wonder whether there is any point in continuing my campaign at all.'
Breaking into tearful English, she continued: 'I cannot understand what is taking so long. I cannot understand why you are letting ISIS get away with it or what more you need to hear before you will act.'
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'I think it's a really good thing to give that case the extra publicity that it may get,' Amal has said of her own high profile marriage and pregnancy
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'Victims like Nadia can't expect to wait forever,' Amal said on Thursday
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Mrs Clooney pictured on Wednesday as well with her client on International Women's Day and later that night in a pink ensemble
Clooney, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London who represents Yazidi women victimized in Iraq, has asked the United Nations to investigate Islamic State crimes, preferably with the cooperation of the Iraqi government.
The government of Iraq has voiced support for such an investigation but has taken no action that would trigger a U.N. response.
Clooney also wants the Islamist group brought before the International Criminal Court.
And she says her high profile marriage can be a good thing with her work as it shines a light on the battles she is fighting. 
'I think if there are more people who now understand what's happening about the Yazidis and ISIS, and if there can be some action that results from that, that can help those clients, then I think it's a really good thing to give that case the extra publicity that it may get,' Amal told the BBC

'Nadia speaks for all the Yazidis when she says how exasperated she feels,' Clooney told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 'Victims like Nadia can't expect to wait forever.'
According to the United Nations, the militants enslaved about 7,000 women and girls in 2014, mainly Yazidis, and is still holding 3,500, some as sex slaves.
Murad now lives in Germany, which has taken in some 1,000 Iraqi sexual assault victims, according to Clooney.[/size]

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Thank you, Annemarie

Your very wecome Pan.

There's been a lot said about the focus being on what she wears as opposed to what she does.  And indeed, it is the right of every women to dress however she likes.   My only comment is this:  She is clever, she would know exactly what is being written about her, yet she continues to wear, occasionally outlandish fashions in a context where it isn't entirely appropriate. Who is playing who?

I hope the ISIS member(s) responsible for raping Nadia will be will held accountable for raping her.  It will help Nadia's  cause if the news  articles were titled:  Amal is prosecuting ISIS members for rape.  I do hope Nadia has her day in court. 

If I understand correctly, genocide is NOT included as a count in the Yazidis case Amal is prosecuting.  Nor has Amal presented truth in facts that lay the foundation of genocide as cause for action in the Yazidi region.  It bears no weight to ask the UN: Don't let ISIS get away with genocide, without presenting before the UN, truth in fact the ideology of ISIS is criminal and their actions (killing/murder, rape, unlawful occupation) based on that ideology is unjustified and punishable under the law.

My hope is the people in the Yazidis region will find an investigating truth seeking team willing to state the truth in fact, the ideology of ISIS is criminal and present a case against ISIS for illegal occupation, murder, and rape before an International Court.

Ladybug,
I just googled for 'yazidi genozide' and found a wikipedia site which described that the UN declared it as genozide already.

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So there's no need to start this again.

I don't know why Iraq doesn't want to start this intervention. Maybe - since the Yazidis are not the only ethnic / religious group being terrorized by ISIS, they want to make sure that all of their crimes are judged as crimes against humanity and don't want the UN to start with one single element, the genozide to the Yazidis.

But I so unterstand that the Yazidis want justice now, in the near Future, and that they don't want to wait until all the countries who suffered from ISIS, have agreed on a united action.

ladybugcngc wrote:I hope the ISIS member(s) responsible for raping Nadia will be will held accountable for raping her.  It will help Nadia's  cause if the news  articles were titled:  Amal is prosecuting ISIS members for rape.  I do hope Nadia has her day in court. 

If I understand correctly, genocide is NOT included as a count in the Yazidis case Amal is prosecuting.  Nor has Amal presented truth in facts that lay the foundation of genocide as cause for action in the Yazidi region.  It bears no weight to ask the UN: Don't let ISIS get away with genocide, without presenting before the UN, truth in fact the ideology of ISIS is criminal and their actions (killing/murder, rape, unlawful occupation) based on that ideology is unjustified and punishable under the law.

My hope is the people in the Yazidis region will find an investigating truth seeking team willing to state the truth in fact, the ideology of ISIS is criminal and present a case against ISIS for illegal occupation, murder, and rape before an International Court.

Interesting...

Ouch ouch ouch.....To be so pretty and so teflon....all at the same time....