In 2021, an application was submitted to the Petition Committee of the Bundestag for the recognition of the ISIS genocide against the Yazidis on August 3, 2014 in Germany after almost 60 thousand signatures were collected.

In June, the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Commission consulted experts after the issue was brought up to the agenda in the Petition Committee of the Bundestag in February.

Later on, the Petition Committee of the Bundestag accepted the demand to recognize the Yazidi Genocide and brought up the issue to the general assembly of the parliament. The bill was accepted unanimously with the support of the lawmakers from the parties that have groups in the parliament.

A further bill for the recognition of the Yazidi genocide will be prepared soon and submitted to the general assembly of the federal parliament.

“Recognition of the genocide is an important step for the Yazidi community to overcome their trauma," Max Lucks, a lawmaker and head of the Greens Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee, said.

Lucks underlined that Germany wanted the Yazidi community to lead a “safe life in peace”.

In a landmark ruling last November, a German court convicted an Iraqi ISIS member of genocide against the Yazidis.

A United Nations special investigative team announced in May 2021 that the team had gathered "clear and convincing evidence" that a genocide was committed against the Yazidis.

During the genocidal attacks by ISIS on Şengal on August 3, 2014, thousands of Yazidis were murdered and kidnapped, and thousands of Yazidi women were taken captive and sold in slave markets. The whereabouts of thousands of Yazidis is still unknown. According to confirmed data, ISIS killed at least 5 thousand people and kidnapped 7 thousand more.