Trauma and perceived social rejection among Yazidi women and girls who survived enslavement and genocide

Trauma and perceived social rejection among Yazidi women and girls who survived enslavement and genocide

Abstract Background In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist organization, attacked the Yazidi’s ancestral homeland in northwestern Iraq. Among other atrocities, they abducted thousands of women and girls and traded many of them into sexual slavery. The aim of this stu...

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Main Authors: Hawkar Ibrahim, Verena Ertl, Claudia Catani, Azad Ali Ismail, Frank Neuner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Kurd
Yazidi
Genocide
Enslavement
PTSD
Depression
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-018-1140-5

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