Nareen Shammo in Madrid in 2017.

Nareen Shammo (born 1986 in Bashiqa, Iraq) is a Yazidi investigative journalist and a human rights defender.[1]

Life

She studied English literature at the Al-Hadba University of Mosul, has worked as a journalist and TV producer for 9 years, and currently campaigns for the rights of Yazidi women.[1]

Activism

In 2014 Nareen Shammo quit her TV job when she learnt that Islamic State was systematically kidnapping and enslaving women and girls in Iraq and became active in the liberation of captive Yazidi girls and women and in denouncing the genocide of Yazidis.[2] She has worked with the Initiative for Ezidis around the world and the Yazda Center.[3] She has been chosen in 2015 between 100 inspiring women in the world by BBC,[4] and 2016 by Salt and Diageo's.[5]

She was the first to speak out about the abuses against Yazidi women before the Kurdistan Region and call for their intervention.[6]

In 2015, Nareen Shammo was awarded the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize (Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis) of the German Die Linke party, for her outstanding work.[7][8][9][10][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Vogel, Sonja. "Verbrechen an jesidischen Frauen: "Wir sind im Irak nicht sicher"". die tageszeitung. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ex-journalist is lonely lifeline for Yazidis sold into sex slavery". Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2015 für Nareen Shammo : DIE LINKE". DIE LINKE (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2015: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "Salt and Diageo's 100 Inspiring Women: #14 Nareen Shammo". wearesalt.org. 7 March 2016.
  6. ↑ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Kampf um Sindschar: Kurden schlagen zurück | DW | 20.12.2014". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Die Menschenrechtsverbechen des "Islamischen Staates"". Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Yazidi sex slaves 'forced to donate blood' to wounded Isis fighters". Independent.co.uk. 13 January 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "ISIS Captives Tell Of Rapes And Beatings, Plead For Help". NPR.org. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Nareen Shammo: One Woman vs. the Islamic State". Pink Jinn. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
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