Yazidi women captured by Islamic State 'sold, raped, enslaved, and treated like cattle'

An adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government on gender issues has revealed that women and girls from the minority Yazidi community, captured by the Islamic State (IS), "were treated like cattle," a report said.

Nazand Begikhani, a researcher at the UK-based University of Bristol's Gender and Violence Research Center, also said that the women abducted by the terror group have been subjected to physical and sexual violence including, "systematic rape and sex slavery," reported the CNN.

They have been exposed in the markets in "Raqqa, Syria, carrying price tags," she said.

The report said that young Yazidi women were used to lure fresh recruits to the terror group and were also taken away by militants who came periodically to pick three to four girls at a time.

The Islamic State has kidnapped more than 2,500 women.