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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will represent ISIS rape survivor, Nadia Murad, and other victims of the 2014 Yezidi genocide, etonline.com reports.

"The European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the U.S. government and the U.K. House of Commons have all recognized that there is a genocide being perpetrated by IS against the Yezidis in Iraq," Amal said in statement to the New York Times' Women in the World blog. "How can it be that the most serious crimes known to humanity are being carried out before our eyes but are not being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague?"

Nearly six thousand Yezidis were killed in the massacre, while millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes to escape ISIS, the source reminds.

Nadia was among the thousands of Yezidi women kidnapped from Northern Iraq and forced into camps where they were sexually brutalized for belonging to a religious minority in an area terrorized by the Islamic extremist group.
After enduring three months of torture, Nadia escaped in November 2014.

To remind, 23-year-old activist, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize this past January, visited Yerevan to attend the Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide. Nadia shared her story of escaping ISIS with Panorama.am.