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Thank you so much for having me. And I, I it's my job to be. We do and join you today before we start, I just want to remind your viewers that today is the World Day against human trafficking. And it is our collective responsibility to to end the human trafficking. And I hope everyone can can help to to raise awareness about these these topics.

You have spoken about this. And and I think that's why your story is so powerful, because many people thought of ISIS and there was a point where it was all that was in the news. And once the larger caliphate was defeated, people thought the story was finished.

But you you've been an advocate speaking out, saying there are so many women who are still the victims of sex trafficking and sexual violence at the hands of ISIS, at the hands of this Islamic state that's trying to create terror through the abuse of women's bodies. What are some of the things that you think the international community could be doing to help?

You know, I wish that our our pain and what is happening to us right now after six years of what ISIS did to us, I wish it was gone when when they killed Baghdadi or other us. But this is not the reality. The reality is that we have until today, we have two thousand Yazidi women and children still in captivity. And my sister-in-law, my niece, my nephew, we have more than 85 mass graves in Sinjar right now.

We have more than 60 percent of the community is displaced. Our homeland is destroyed. And what I see can not just for one or two days, ISIS, I said, slip behind to a community that will not recover without the support of the international community.

A year ago, you met with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and in the Oval Office. And I actually want to show a little clip of that meeting.

I hope you can call or anything to Iraqi Kurdistan government or ISIS is good. But if I if I know it's Kurdish and Iraqi Iraqi government, if I cannot go to my home and live in a safe place and get my my dignity back, we cannot find a safe place to live. All this happened to me. They killed my mom, my brother. They left behind them. They now they kill them. They are in the mass graves in Sinjar.

And I'm still fighting just to live in safe. Please do something.

You have to explain to him the situation on the ground. Since then. Have you heard back or has anything changed or has anything been done to try and remedy what is happening to the Yazidis and especially the women with the U.S. government?

We have been doing a lot of work. Vice President Mike Pence, he from the beginning, he's a big supporter to our case to to Yazidis to go back. I think one of the most difficult challenges I have faced since the beginning, that my community was not well known to other people, even in presidents around the world. And it was difficult for me to go and explain to them who we are, what happened to us. I think 20 days later, I had to meet them again in France, in the G7, in France.

And I think they got the message. And this was this was my my work advocating for my community and many other communities around the world to make sure that people will know what happened to us. So they would try to to do something like Yazidis or others will not go through that.

When we see images of people who are fleeing countries as refugees, oftentimes we are told the story, especially in Western media, that these people want to look for a better life in another country. But you talk about how much pride people have for their homeland, how much people want to go home. Do you think that if the Iraqi government and the international community could come together to fix these regions and rehabilitate what has happened, do you think people will come back?

You know, I don't think those people that have already make it to Europe or Canada or other places will go back soon because they are seeing other peoples in this place. But when why? I started to focus on my homeland as someone who who was kidnapped. Someone who lived as a refugee, this place is because I knew that no one is ready to to take more refugees and we can they can help us and other other small communities and other countries.

But people can go back. But without support and safety, we cannot go back. I can tell you that I'm not happy to be a refugee after after spending my entire life with my family. You always wanted to stay in your home. And it's not something that I wish to be a refugee. No, it's not. It's not that easy, right? The fact that you faced so many atrocities at the hands of ISIS, you've been through things that no human being could ever imagine going through, and yet you've used it to become an advocate for the change you want to see and you're trying to move the world into a more positive place.

Where did you find the strength of what keeps you going in a fight that seems so unwinnable, sometimes innocent since the first day you started?

It's it's not something I came from a small community, a family that we were and we were 11 siblings. We my mother raised us by her, like on her own. She was a single mother. It was not easy for her. They came to me, my family, my community, that they raped us. They killed my mother. They killed six of my brothers who left behind them, six widows with twenty one minor children. And like so many other people, many other Yazidi families who are still waiting to to one day talk to see our our family members bury them in a.

In our homeland, I don't think it's something that I want to do it I am not happy with all these things because I was part of what happened, but I have no other choice. And I guess that's that's the painful truth. You don't have a choice and. I feel like if everyone in the world felt like they didn't have a choice, then hopefully governments would step up and do something about it. And especially on a day like today, hopefully we can stand together and have the right people hear the message that we have to try and fight against sex trafficking and the trafficking of women around the world, no matter where, where or how it's happening.

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