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
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