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Iraqi Yazidi women gather at Lalish temple in a valley near Dohuk, 430 km (260 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad, on June 24, 2018. At the Yazidis' most holy site in Iraq, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege pays tribute to a spiritual leader who has ordained Yazidi women enslaved and raped by the Islamic State (IS) should not be stigmatised. Yazidis are followers of an ancient religion with more than half a million believers in northern Iraq, but in 2014 IS kidnapped thousands of the sect's women and girls as sex slaves. (Photo by Safin HAMID / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)