Iraqi Minorities Seek UN Emergency Session

An international coalition of activists is calling on the U.N. Human Rights Council to convene an emergency session on the plight of minority groups in Iraq, including the Yazidis and Christians.  The coalition says urgent action is needed to save the people whose lives and cultural heritage are in grave danger.  The rights activists said the U.N. council could not physically protect the hundreds of thousands of Yazidis, Christians and other Iraqi minorities forced to flee from...

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