Nadia Murad
Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize · Iraq · On the map · Activists · Born 1993 · age 33
Nadia Murad Basee Taha is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq. Much of her community was massacred.
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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 2018Awards
About this person
After losing most of her family, Murad was held as an Islamic State sex slave for three months, alongside thousands of other Yazidi women and girls.
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