# Yazidi humanitarian and justice crisis

> Live situation record from CLSTR: https://clstr.news/situations/yazidi-humanitarian-and-justice-crisis
> Updated: 2026-08-14T22:56:01.000Z. Sources: 2. Developments: 2.

The Yazidi community continues to face significant humanitarian and judicial challenges more than a decade after the Islamic State genocide in 2014. More than 200,000 Yazidis remain internally displaced in refugee camps within the autonomous Kurdistan region, facing issues such as unreconstructed villages, lack of employment, and the withdrawal of international aid.

Legal efforts to achieve accountability have seen progress, including convictions in German courts for crimes against Yazidi girls and formal recognition of the atrocities as genocide by the United Nations and the German Bundestag. 

Community members continue to commemorate massacres, such as the one in Koço village, while expressing ongoing grief. A major unresolved grievance is the absence of the remains of massacre victims, which families report are still held in Baghdad, preventing proper burials.

## Timeline

### 2026-08-14: Yezidi communities commemorate Koço massacre and victims

Yezidi communities held commemorations in Koço to mark the anniversary of the ISIS massacre, calling for the return of victims' remains and justice for those killed in the 2014 genocide.

2 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/yezidi-communities-commemorate-koo-massacre-and-victims

### 2026-08-03: Yazidi community still suffering 12 years after IS genocide

Twelve years after IS’s Yazidi genocide, 200,000 displaced remain in Kurdistan camps, villages stay unrebuilt, and German courts prosecute perpetrators, while IGFM continues aid and education programs.

2 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/yazidi-community-still-suffering-12-years-after-is-genocide

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