On September 20, 2026, Iraq’s National Team for Mass Grave Excavations began a new round of mass grave exhumations in Sinjar. Work is underway at the Sharaf al-Din mass grave and will continue for 20 days.

Nadia's Initiative is working in close coordination with the Directorate for the Protection of Mass Graves and Missing Persons and the field team to support this round of exhumations. For survivors, justice includes recovering the remains of their loved ones. Each identification returns a name to a family. Twelve years after the genocide began, many families are still waiting.

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For more than seven years, Nadia’s Initiative has supported Yazidi genocide survivors by centering their voices and advancing justice, recovery, and healing. In 2024, after receiving advocacy training from NI, Yazidi families met with Iraqi officials in Baghdad to voice their demands about their missing loved ones. Their testimonies led to new exhumation efforts, and with NI’s support on the ground, over a dozen mass and individual graves were uncovered in early 2025, representing an important step toward truth, dignity, and closure for families of the victims.

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