Nadia Murad
✓ Source-basedfallingYazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
She survived genocide and three months as a sex slave held by the Islamic State, then turned that testimony into a campaign to end sexual violence as a weapon of war - work that won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
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Human Rights panel in Vienna in 2018: left to right: 1 Abid Shamdeen 2 Nadia Murad 3 Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein 4 Karin Kneissl 5 Michael O'Flaherty 6 Hauwa Ibrahim 7 Max Schrems 8 Susana Chiarotti
Poster of Nadia Murad speaking to the UN Security Council at the Yazidi Temple of Lalish, Ninawa
Murad and Denis Mukwege receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018In their own words 4
We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.
Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.
Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.
Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
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About this person
Born in Kocho, Iraq, Nadia Murad was twenty-one when Islamic State fighters swept through her Yazidi community in 2014. Most of her family was killed in the massacre. She was abducted and held for three months alongside thousands of other Yazidi women and girls. After escaping, she moved to Germany and began speaking publicly about what had happened. In 2016 the United Nations appointed her its first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. She founded Nadia's Initiative to help survivors of genocide and trafficking rebuild. In 2018 she and Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains the first Iraqi and the first Yazidi to receive the prize.
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