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IOM Assists Over 130 Yazidis IOM Assists Over 130 Yazidis to Resettle from Iraq to France You are here Erbil  – One hundred thirty-two members of Iraq’s Yazidi community left Erbil International Airport today (22/05) for Toulouse, France, the latest resettlement effort by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), part of the Humanitarian Admissions Programme launched by President Emmanuel Macron. President Macron has pursued this policy with the support of 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, who has advocated for vulnerable Yazidi women worldwide.   The initiative was the subject of a  signing ceremony  between IOM and the French Government attended by Ms. Murad two weeks ago in Paris. “Today we have come to see you off on your new journey to France,” Dominique Mas, the French Consul General in Erbil, told the Yazidi families as they boarded the aircraft.   “In France you will receive protection, security, education, as well as medic