The Kidnapped Yazidis Rescue Office announced that 3,590 Yazidis have been rescued while 2,554 remain missing, and criticized the Iraqi government for delays in implementing the Yazidi Survivors Law.

Speaking to Channel8, Hussein Qaidi, Head of the Rescue Office, said more than 6,000 Yazidis were kidnapped during the ISIS attack on Shingal (Sinjar) and surrounding areas on August 3, 2014.

Qaidi stated that 3,590 individuals have been rescued, while 2,554 are still unaccounted for. He stressed that, under the instruction of the Kurdistan Region President, “they will continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Yazidis until there is one Yazidi left.”

He added that their mission involves ongoing investigations in both Rojava and Iraq to locate those still missing.

Regarding compensation, Qaidi said that most provisions of the Yazidi Survivors Law—passed by the Iraqi Parliament on March 1, 2021—remain unimplemented.

He noted that fewer than half of the eligible survivors have received their salaries and that only around 154 plots of land have been distributed.

Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Region’s Independent Human Rights Commission reported that some kidnapped Yazidi women and girls have not yet been freed.

The commission criticized the federal government for failing to compensate victims of the Shingal massacre and called on both Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government to intensify efforts to facilitate the return of displaced Yazidis to their homes.