The association Voice of Ezidis, co-founded in Paris in 2019 by survivors of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State, is committed to the support of the Ezidi community, both in France, where some refugee families have fled since the beginning of the genocide, and in Iraq, where a lot of Ezidis still reside. Voice of Ezidis defends the rights of the Ezidi people and advocates for the awareness and recognition of the genocide it endured in 2014. 

The situation for minorities in Iraq is worsening since the end of the 19th century. They faced several assimilation attempts from successive regimes that sometimes resulted in ethnic cleansing and genocides like the Sayfo genocide or the Anfal Campaign.

The number of minorities shrunk during the 20th century, with Assyrians decreasing from 1.5 million to just 350,000 and the Jewish community from 120,000 to just few dozens.

Living in a destabilized and conquered land, extremist leaders were free to spread their ideology. Using the frustration of people, they exploited their weaknesses and turned them into fighters. For a part of the desperate and young generation of Iraqis, this led to adhere to the violent ISIS ideology.

Today, resentment and defiance are omnipresent among the different communities of Iraq.

Prejudices are widespread and got stronger with the communities having grown apart for the last years. The minorities are showing complete distrust against the majority, the latter enforcing discrimination. Entire minority communities have been destroyed, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their home both inside and outside of Iraq.