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Sharya, Iraq \u2013<\/strong> On a warm weekday, Hilwa Ibrahim, 50, was sitting patiently alongside a few other Yazidi women in the office of the NGO Emma Organization for Human Development, in the town of Sharya, approximately 15km (9 miles) south of Duhok.<\/p>\n Wearing a full-body dark purple garment and sandals, and a light blue hijab, she gave a hint of a smile and walked into the room. Her tired and aged appearance was an indication of the ordeal she had survived.<\/p>\n \u201cMy husband was murdered by ISIL [ISIS]\u201d, were the first words she uttered.<\/p>\n She remembered August 2014, when ISIL swept through northern Iraq\u2019s Yazidi-majority district of Sinjar, where she is originally from, launching what has been described as a genocide<\/a> against Iraq\u2019s ethno-religious\u00a0Yazidi minority.<\/p>\n At that time, Ibrahim and all her family members, along with dozens of others, were captured and taken to Tal Afar, about 50km (31 miles) east of Sinjar.<\/p>\n Ibrahim recounts her story, explaining how the abductees were separated by gender, with the men killed, and the women and girls forced into sexual slavery.<\/p>\n She was sent to what would become two years and four months of ISIL captivity, while her husband was shot dead.<\/p>\n