Congolese doctor helps Yazidi women overcome rape stigma Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege pays homage to a spiritual leader who has decreed women raped by the Islamic State group should not be stigmatised. Yazidis are followers of an ancient religion with more than half a million believers in northern Iraq, but in 2014 IS kidnapped thousands of the sect's women and girls as sex slaves. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES