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Nadia Murad is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist who survived the Islamic State genocide and slavery. She founded Nadia's Initiative and co-won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her efforts to end sexual violence in war.
Nadia Murad is a Yazidi activist who escaped sexual slavery by IS and became a UN Goodwill Ambassador. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
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Nadia Murad (born 1993, Kawjū (Kocho), Iraq) Yazīdī human rights activist who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called ISIS) in August 2014 and sold into sex slavery. She escaped three months later, and shortly thereafter she began speaking out about human trafficking and sexual violence, especially as these issu...
In August 2014 ISIL undertook a campaign to capture Yazīdī villages for the purpose of human trafficking. The Yazīdī community, largely located around the Sinjār Mountains in Iraq, had long suffered persecution and discrimination. Unlike many other religious minorities, such as Jews and Christians whose religious proximity to Islam allowed them certain protections through the dhimmah system, the Yazīdīs had often been singled out for persecution on the basis of their teachings. Drawing on this background, the propaganda machine of ISIL was able to target the Yazīdīs as a religiously sanctioned source for sex slavery in an effort to lure young men to join the militant group.
On August 15 Murad’s village of Kawjū (Kocho) was captured by ISIL. The Yazīdīs were rounded up, and the men and women were separated. The men, including six of Murad’s brothers, were massacred. Some older women, including Murad’s mother, were also killed. The rest of the women, including Murad, were taken to Mosul, Iraq, the largest city held by ISIL at the time, to be marketed as sex slaves. More than 5,200 Yazīdī women in total were trafficked by ISIL in 2014, while about 5,000 men were killed.
In 2015 Murad left for Germany as part of a refugee program for survivors of ISIL. In December of that year she was asked to speak before the UN Security Council on human trafficking, an appearance that prompted a number of requests for interviews. Her testimonies not only drew attention to the ongoing suffering of the Yazīdī community and to the h...
Nadia Murad is a Yazīdī human rights activist who escaped from ISIL sex slavery in 2014 and became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2018. Learn about her life, her activism, and her book The Last Girl.
Oct 5, 2018 · Nadia Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State (IS) militants and later became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people.
Oct 5, 2018 · Nadia Murad, joint winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, is a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery at the hands of ISIS in Iraq.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Yazidi refugee and activist Nadia Murad has become one of the most famous advocates for survivors of sexual violence in war. Photo: Oscilloscope Laboratories World
Oct 10, 2016 · Oct. 10, 2016. Fighters for the Islamic State abducted a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad, her siblings and their mother from their village in northern Iraq more than two years ago. Barely in...
