Via Independent:

A United Nations official has said that she has seen a ‘price list’ for child slaves that has been circulated amongst Isis fighters in Syria and Iraq.

Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that she was given a copy of the list during a trip to Iraq in April.

The list surfaced online in November last year, but proved difficult to verify as genuine. Now , Bangura says she can confirm that the document is real, after spending time in the region.

Speaking to Bloomberg, she said that girls get “peddled like barrels of petrol”, and are sometimes bought so they can be sold to their families for thousands of dollars in ransom money.