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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/977bd169dcc35bfa https://verfassungsblog.de/is-jesidinnen-religion/ Naming the Harm - How International Law Quietly Overlooks the Religious in Religious Persecution Mose, Gregory eng 2026-09-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Islamischer Staat Jesidinnen Religion Strafrecht Völkerstrafverfahren Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In July 2026, a Munich court convicted an Iraqi couple of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity against two Yazidi girls. In particular, the court found that they deliberately targeted the religious identity of the girls. But attacks on religion are not limited to individual victims: ISIS systematically destroyed dozens of Yazidi shrines and temples, a tactic that has so far gone unprosecuted. International law struggles to clearly identify and name the targeting of religion itself as a crime in its own right.