The United Nations has released a report claiming the Islamic State has opened an office to sell women and girls as goods in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

ABC News quoted the U.N. human rights report as saying militants from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, take the abductees to Mosul's al-Quds area where the sale takes place.

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The report said the women and girls literally had tag prices and the buyers were mostly youth from the local communities.

The abductees were from Iraq's minority Yazidi sect and were being sold to the youth apparently to lure recruits, the report added.

According to the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq and the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNAMI/OHCHR), ISIS forces the captured women to convert to Islam and marry them off to ISIS fighters.

The report said the UNAMI/OHCHR also received information the militants were taking the women held against their will to unknown destinations.

The U.N. accuses ISIS militants of committing "systematic and widespread" human rights abuses.

The world body said in its report that the extremist group and its associates were behind "a staggering array" of human rights abuses that occurred over nine weeks in Iraq.

The U.N. report claimed IS jihadists were harassing ethnic and religious communities and sexually abusing girls and women.

It cited the case of a Yazidi girl that ISIS militants abducted during an attack on her village in August.

It said the girl was raped by different men and later sold in a market. She was among around 500 women and girls seized by ISIS militants from the village of Sinjar in southern Iraq on August 3. 

The ISIS reportedly sent some of the women to Syria "either to be given to ISIL fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves," the U.N. report said.

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