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Amal Clooney ashamed of UN's inaction on ISIS threat!
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Amal Clooney sat before the United Nations on Friday and delivered a damning speech on its failure to tackle some of the gravest crimes committed by Isis against the Yazidi community.
The renowned human rights lawyer told delegates gathered that she was "ashamed" more steps had not been taken by the UN against the terror group, which “brags” about the mass murder and enslavement of Yazidi men, women and children in areas of the Middle East under its control.
Clooney was speaking to introduce Nadia Murad, a woman who was captured in northern Iraq in 2014 and trafficked as a sex slave by Isis before eventually escaping. She was one of 5,000 women abducted by fighters as the group swept through territories in Iraq. Many of these women were sold as 'sabia' - slaves, and those who escaped have described brutal gang-rapes and being passed among fighters.
Murad, 23, appeared before the UN in New York in 2015 and spoke of the horrific experiences inflicted upon her by Isis. She will act as an ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking for the UN’s Drugs and Crime body.
Clooney, who is representing Murad and was sat by her side on Friday, is in New York with Murad to meet with representatives from the government in Iraq, the UN and members of the UN Security Council.
The “unimaginable horrors” committed against the minority Yazidis was detailed in an extensive report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Syrian Arab Republic in June.
Murad’s mother and six brothers were among 600 murdered by Isis in one day after her capture. The barbarity she has recalled of her time in captivity was highlighted by Clooney, who delivered a powerful and direct speech that left no uncertainty in its message: the atrocities committed by Isis and detailed by Murad amount to genocide, and not enough has been done to tackle or even address it.
Clooney was fiercely critical of the inaction by the UN in the face of the persecution of Yazidis, something she conveyed in her opening remarks.
“This is the first time I have spoken in this chamber. I wish I could say I'm proud to be here but I am not. I am ashamed as a supporter of the United Nations that states are failing to prevent or even punish genocide because they find that their own interests get in the way.”
At the end of her eight-minute address, Clooney turned to Murad and apologised on behalf of world leaders for not doing more to help women like her. "I am sorry we have failed you," she said.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...-a7313551.html
Legendary human rights lawyer has spoken. 
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