Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted ZAF 1/2015 01/05/2015 South Africa JAL African descent; Migrants; Racism; Summary executions; Alleged incidents of racial and xenophobic violence, and attacks perpetrated against immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in different parts of South Africa. According to the information received, between 6 and 29 April 2015, at least four foreigners and three South African nationals, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in attacks in Durban, properties were looted and over 1,000 people, including refugees and asylumseekers, were displaced. The attacks targeted African immigrants, including those from Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Somalia, and included violence against journalists covering these incidents and police. The unrests started in Isipingo and Chatsworth, where several grocery shops owned by foreign nationals were vandalized, and spread to KwaMakhutha and Umlazi. It is alleged that these attacks have left some 5,300 foreigners homeless in Durban; these persons are being assisted in four sites through municipal and provincial disaster management responses. Also, approximately 1,800 people are estimated displaced in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng following similar attacks. These attacks on foreigners follow previous ones which took place between May and June 2014, where several incidents of racially motivated violence and attacks carried out against foreigners and migrants occurred, especially in the provinces of KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng. IRQ 1/2015 04/05/2015 Iraq JUA Discrimination against women; Freedom of religion; Minority issues; Sale of children; Slavery; Summary executions; Violence against women; Allegations of mass summary executions of Yezidi men and of forced conversion to Islam and deportation of Yezidi women and girls held captive by the so-called Islamic State from Iraq to Syria. According to the information received, up to 2,500 members of the Yezidi minority community, who are being held by the so-called Islamic State (ISIL) in the territory of Tal Afar in Iraq’s Nineveh province, have been forced to convert to Islam. Older girls and young women have allegedly been sold to, abused, sexually exploited and enslaved by ISIL fighters. On 26 April 2015, ISIL troops moved the 2,500 captive members of the Yezidi minority community to a school in Tal Afar. Subsequently, up to 700 men and teenage boys were reportedly separated from the rest of the group and moved to the village of Jino near Tal Afar. Furthermore, girls of a young age were reportedly also separated from the rest of the group. On 27 April 2015, up to 400 Yezidi men, from the above-mentioned group, were executed in an unknown location in Ayathiya and/or Zummar sub-districts. The remaining women and children are allegedly to be moved to Syria. Reply A/HRC/30/27 44 Date Type

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