Yazidi woman Ronak Ali Yazdin has returned to Iraq to stand in the forthcoming elections, vowing to step up efforts to rescue thousands of women kidnapped by Isis.

Ms Yazdin, who has been living in Sweden for 10 years, is standing as a candidate on the KDP list in her home town of Shariya in Iraq’s Duhok province.

She said: “To rescue our mothers and sisters from Isis hands, to end living at camps and help return them home, to help recognise the case of Yazidis at international centres, I will need your trust and votes."