SGBV

During conflict, traffickers take advantage of the lack of normalcy and the rule of law to exploit the existing vulnerabilities of people and act with impunity to finance war, provide sexual services and reduce, if not eliminate, ethnic or religious minorities.

While it is true that non-State armed groups have long exploited vulnerable people for sexual purposes, military service and forced labour, those groups, particularly Da’esh and Boko Haram, encourage and run a slave trade of unprecedented dimensions.

Members heard, for the first time, the poignant testimony of Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a Yezidi survivor of sexual slavery at the hands of Da’esh.

We must continue to work on identifying individuals and groups that fund terrorist groups through their sexual trafficking and violence.