Iraq – displaced Yezidi workers in the Sheikhan district complained about the long working hours on farm fields and low wages. Field owners admitted that wages are low and attributed it to lower prices for their agricultural products as a result of importer competition. Activists stressed that the increase in the number of displaced persons raised the number of people looking for paid work. We are forced to work to earn a living. We get up at 3 am and go to the field to harvest the potato crop until 1 pm and get sun burns, said Zahida Goku, a displaced woman from Sinjar, who lives in Mehmad Rashan camp, south of Sheikhan district. Goku explained that the wages she receives is very low and do not exceed seven thousand dinars (five dollars) per day. Sheikhan district is located 45 km north of Mosul, where thousands of displaced Yazidis were displaced after ISIS invasion of the Nineveh plain in August 2014.
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