LE COURRIER: Boxer pour oser à nouveau
Nombre de femmes yézidies réfugiées à Rwanga ont subi des agressions sexuelles pendant la guerre. Sur le ring, certaines retrouvent la confiance en soi et le goût de la solidarité. Reportage.
MIDDLE EAST EYE: A dark chapter of Kurdish history haunts survivors
Campaign waged by Saddam Hussein’s government to exterminate Iraqi Kurds has yet to be recognised universally as a genocide.
THE SQUEEZE MAGAZINE: Empowering Women and Girls in the Rwanga Refugee Camp
Life was simple in Sinjar, Iraq, 80 miles west of Mosul, but that was not since the so-called Islamic State destroyed the town and its surrounding villages in 2014...
ARD MEDIATEK: Yazidis fight their way back to life
The terrorist organisation Islamic State has left many Yazidis with lasting trauma. They were ambushed and sexually enslaved. Those who could escape now need help. ARD covers The Boxing Sisters project run by The Lotus Flower.
THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE: The Yazidi ‘Boxing Sisters’
For a group of women living in an Iraqi Kurdistan refugee camp, a new class imparts lessons that go far beyond self-defense.
PRIMORSKI: Z boksarskimi rokavicami nad travme in spomine
Reportaža med dekleti jazidske skupnosti, ki prebivajo v begunskem taborišču Rwanga v iraškem Kurdistanu
ABC NEWS: Drive with Richard Glover - The Lotus Flower Supporting Survivors
Join Richard Glover for Drive each week night for current affairs, commentary and comedy. Richard is one of Australia's most experienced broadcasters
Hear the story about how The Lotus Flower is supporting survivors at 20 mins in to the recording.
RADIO AUSTRALIA: Yazidi women launch NSW compensation case against Islamic State
As the last Islamic State fighters are being flushed out of Syria, some of their victims are trying to make them face a legal reckoning for their crimes, here in Australia.
A group of Yazidi women is launching a compensation case later this week in a New South Wales court.
The women say they were raped and abused by the Australian Islamic State terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who is believed to have been killed in an airstrike in 2017.
Their claim is being supported by the Lotus Flower, a British-based NGO for displaced women.
KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD: Yazidi-pigen Husna bokser frygten væk
Den forældreløse 17-årige pige flygtede fra Sinjar, da Islamisk Stats bødler rykkede ind i 2014. Sammen med andre unge yazidi-kvinder modtager Husna al-Ibrahim nu bokseundervisning i en flygtningelejr i det nordlige Irak. ”Det giver os selvtilliden tilbage,” siger hun
ABC NEWS: Terrorist Khaled Sharrouf's frozen assets sought by 'enslaved' Iraqi women
A group of Yazidi women who say they were enslaved, raped and abused by Australia's most infamous terrorist are looking to a New South Wales tribunal for compensation.
Kansan Uutisten: Nyrkein uuden elämän alkuun
Surullisten tarinoiden keskellä Rawangan pakolaisleirin jesidinaiset ovat löytäneet tapoja rakentaa elämänsä uudelleen. Joillekin sellainen on ollut nyrkkeilyharrastus.
THE INDEPENDENT: Meet the Iraq genocide survivor and former professional boxer teaching female refugees to fight
When Isis launched an assault on the Sinjar region in 2014, thousands were subjected to what the UN described as ‘some of the most horrific crimes imaginable’. Katie O'Malley talks to the British charity on a mission to empower survivors
THE TIMES: Yazidis claim damages for Isis fighter’s ‘persecution’
A Kurdish woman who fled to London as a child from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein is leading a claim for damages by Yazidis who say they were persecuted by an Isis fighter.