Mirze Ezdin not know what happened to 45 women and children in your family. They were kidnapped in early August by members of the Islamic State (EI) in the village of Qiniyeh, in the region of Sinjar in northern Iraq.
"We received news from some of them, but others are missing and we do not know whether they are alive or dead," he recently told them to researchers advocacy organization Amnesty International human rights in the area.
A Ezdin, a lawyer, had trouble back tears when speaking of their loved ones, who failed to escape the violence that accompanies the advance of militants in northern Iraq.
Amnesty accused the EI of conducting an ethnic cleansing of "historic" proportions against religious minorities in the province of Nineveh, in a report published this week.
"Perhaps thousands"
Women Family Ezdin are only part of the victims of the Islamic State Yazidis, among which there are also Christians, Turkmen and Shiites.
Although it is not easy to get information on the ground, the human rights organization estimated that "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of women and children are held by EI. Some have managed to contact their families and have transmitted these stories of rape and sexual abuse researchers.
After being kidnapped in early August in villages south of Mount Sinjar, where armed residents clashed with the US, they are being held in different parts of Mosul and Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq.
Fighters apply a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
His situation is desperate. There are allegations that girls and young women are subjected to rape or forced marriages with fighters. Others are sold as slaves.
"We have received reports of the execution of women and other unverified reports that hundreds of women and girls have been abducted. Many adolescents have been sexually assaulted and women have been given or sold to EI as fighters or malak yamiin slaves, "he said the Special Rapporteur on violence against women United Nations, Rashida Manjoo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO based in the UK, confirmed that at least 27 Yezidi women were sold for a total of US $ 1,000 to the fighters of the Islamic State.
According to the organization, some Syrians and Kurds tried to buy to release, but the kidnappers agreed to sell only the jihadists.
Research
The magnitude of the crimes of EI has led the Human Rights Council of the UN to send an emergency mission to investigate the actions of jihadists. The organization Human Rights Watch is trying to confirm reports in the field.
"There are reports that more than a thousand Yazidis women have been abducted in the past two weeks," he told BBC News Rothna Begum, a researcher of women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa. The NGO Human Rights Watch believes that some are held in a sports center in the west of Mosul and other school in Tal Afar.
Shiite and Kurdish forces broke the siege of Isis in the city of Amerli, in northern Iraq.
"Many women disappeared in the area of Mosul in Ninawa taken by EI," he told BBC Sami Ramadani, an Iraqi professor of sociology at London Metropolitan University.
According to Ramadani, some fighters claim that forced marriages are "temporary". "They need a justification for what they do," explains the professor. The militants are turning to "religious sources unproven" to justify their actions.
"All religious leaders oppose such actions, including the Wahhabis," Ramadani said. Wahhabi doctrine is an interpretation of Sunni Islam common among violent Islamist groups, followed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, two countries that have been accused of financing the Islamic State.
Abuses against women, however, did not reach the area in advance of Islamic radicals.
"Since the invasion of Iraq and the ensuing chaos, no prostitution, forced marriage and trafficking of young women," he reminded the BBC Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London.
Syria
In places where Islamic State has established its "caliphate", women can not appear in public unless accompanied by a man of the family.
Although the situation in northern Iraq is difficult to verify if they have transcended details about the lives of women under the mandate of EI in the parts that control in Syria.
"The situation of women has deteriorated significantly," said Ramadani. Human Rights Watch has documented that women can not appear in public unless accompanied by a man of the family in places like Raqqa, the city where Islamic State has established the basis of his "caliphate" and where his uncompromising application of sharia ( Islamic law) is more established.
"We also are forced to completely cover the body and face," he told BBC Iraqi expert. Refugees from the cities of Idlib, Tel Abyad and denounced the Tel Aran EI and extremist militias as the Nusra Front prohibit women to work outside the home.
Information of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and international media also indicate that schools in the region of Idlib, Islamic State forces girls to dress according to the strictest codes of Islam and put pressure on the authorities to separate children in classrooms.
"With the opening of the school year in Iraq now, we will see more clearly how to apply the law," Ramadani said.