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February 1, 2017

Yazidi human rights leader won’t be able to pick up award due to Trump's travel ban

Vian Dakhil, right, the only Yazidi Kurd member of Iraq's Parliament, will not likely be able to accept her Lantos Human Rights Prize in Washington D.C. in person due to U.S. President Donald Trump's recently imposed travel ban.

Vian Dakhil captured the world’s attention two years ago when she made an impassioned plea to save the Yazidi religious minority from annihilation by the Islamic State group in northern Iraq.

Published in International