1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Justice for Yazidis Act . 2. Findings The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Preventing genocide and mass atrocities is a national priority of the United States. (2) Atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) against Yazidis and other minorities have included mass murder, crucifixions, beheadings, rape, torture, enslavement, trafficking, and the kidnapping of children. (3) IS engages in, and publicly argues in favor of, the sexual enslavement of Yazidi women and girls. (4) The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, signed and ratified by the United States, defines genocide as follows: any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group