Reintegration of ISIS Women: An Urgent International Dilemma

The article discusses the plight of former female ISIS members who are not being repatriated by their home countries, leading to severe human rights issues and weakening international security. It highlights the dire conditions in Syrian camps, the negligence towards gender-specific rehabilitation programs, and the significant stigma faced by these women.

Melbourne, Jul 1 (360info) The global community faces a significant challenge as governments largely overlook pleas from former female ISIS members for repatriation, compromising human rights and weakening international security.

For a decade, global researchers have been captivated by the rapid rise and fall of ISIS, a terrorist group whose self-declared Caliphate once spanned Syria and Iraq. However, within five years, the group's expansive territory was dismantled.

With over 40,000 foreign members joining ISIS in Syria and Iraq — 10 percent of them women — this marked a sizable influx of female participants in an international terrorist organization. Feminist researchers have closely examined the specific experiences of these women, but little attention has been dedicated to the urgent need for repatriation, rehabilitation, and reintegration of women and children remaining in these regions.