IS Putting Price Tags On Abducted Women for Sale: UN Report

A United Nations Human Rights report says that the Islamic State is putting price tags on abducted women and girls to sell them in a major Iraqi city.

An office for the sale of abducted women has been opened in the al-Quds area of Mosul city according to the UNAMI/OHCHR  report.

Buyers come here to negotiate sales of the women and are mostly young men from the local communities.

The report says that the abducted Yezidi women informed the UNAMI/OCHR sources that they were forced to convert to Islam and were being offered to IS militants as rewards and as incentives to local young men to join the IS ranks.

The human rights report covering a period of July to September says they found " a staggering array" of gross human rights abuses and "acts of violence of an increasingly sectarian nature.

The UN human rights officials have described serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross abuses of human rights including executions, beheadings, targeted civilian killings, abductions and sexual abuse of women and girls, forced recruitment of children and deliberate destruction and desecration of religious place that have been perpetrated by ISIL and associated armed groups, "with an apparent systematic and widespread character."

"This report is terrifying," said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq Nickolay Mladenov, calling on Iraqi leaders to "act in unity to restore control over areas that have been taken over by ISIL and implement inclusive social, political and economic reforms."

"Members of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities, including Turkmen, Shabak, Christians, Yezidi, Sabaeans, Kaka'e, Faili Kurds, Arab Shi'a, and others have particularly been affected by the situation," the report elaborates.