Quite a number of tragic stories of the ongoing genocide of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) against Christians and other religious minorities were shared at the #WeAreN2016 international congress on religious freedom in New York. The stories were described as "graphic, brutal and raw."

(Reuters/Ari Jala) Yazidi sisters who escaped Islamic State captivity sit at a Sharya refugee camp on the outskirts of Duhok province in Iraq, July 3, 2015.

One atrocious account was that of a couple who received body parts of their dead daughters from the ISIS, along with a video of them being brutally raped.

"Why are these innocent kids and these innocent people suffering this much in that region?" Samia Sleman, 15, asked during the conference. Sleman is a Yazidi teenage girl who was held in captivity by ISIS for six months.

Sleman revealed that thousands of women and girls are being used as sex slaves by the Islamic extremists. Girls, as young as seven years old, are being raped and also forced to convert to Islam.

"ISIS' attempt to exterminate people with their twisted theology, with their a-century barbarism, unfortunately with 21st century weaponry, is not only a threat to human dignity, it's a threat to the very stability of the Middle East in the future, and the principles of civilization itself," Congressman Jeff Fortenberry said. Fortenberry is the co-chair of the Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East.

The U.S. State Department, the British House of Commons, and the European Union Parliament are all aware of the genocide Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities in Iraq and Syria are facing in the past few months. However, there has seemingly been no change in the situation. Victims are pleading for specific actions to be taken.

"Why don't we see any action being taken? Even though it's been over a year and a half now, we've seen horrible things happen to us minorities, especially Yazidis and Christians, in that region, and we don't see the international community taking concrete actions against the Islamic State," Sleman said, as quoted by the Christian Post.