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Nadia Murad Basee Taha ( Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. [2] [3] [4] In 2014, as part of the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq and much of her ...
Nadia Murad has written an autobiography, “The Last Girl”. By recounting the atrocities perpetrated against her, she seeks to help ensure that future generations of girls and young women do not become victims of sexual violence in war.
May 9, 2024 · Nadia Murad, Yazidi human rights activist who was kidnapped by ISIL (ISIS) in 2014 and sold into sex slavery with some 5,200 others. She escaped and began advocating for Yazidi women and drawing attention to human trafficking and sexual violence. In 2018 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Nadia’s peaceful life was brutally interrupted in 2014 when Daesh (Islamic State) attacked her homeland of Sinjar – with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis.
Human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, The Last Girl : My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, is a harrowing account of the genocide against the Yazidi ethno-religious ...
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. In 2014, she was captured and...
Aug 3, 2023 · Thursday marks nine years since the darkest day in Nadia Murad’s life - the day ISIS rolled into Sinjar, a predominantly Yazidi city in north-western Iraq, slaughtering dozens of men and kidnapping hundreds of women. The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking religious minority, were a major target for ISIS, which persecuted them for their beliefs.
Oct 5, 2018 · CNN — 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.
Oct 5, 2018 · Nadia Murad, one of two winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, was recognized for her globe-spanning campaign to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. A slender, frail young woman with gentle...
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...
