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Campaigners demand action from world leaders to find 3,000 missing Yazidi women and children
Yazidi women in traditional clothes [Lilia123456 / Creative Commons]

MORE than 80 organisations and individuals have launched a campaign calling for world leaders to take “decisive action” to find nearly 3,000 missing Yazidi women and children.

At least 2,763 that were captured by Isis and sold into sexual slavery as they carried out a genocide in the Shengal region of northern Iraq have never been found.

A joint letter to the United Nations General Assembly which opened for its 76th session on Tuesday calls for the international community to take measures  to secure their safe return.

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