Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Nadia Murad
نادیە موراد
Murad in 2018
Born
Nadia Murad Basee Taha
(1993-03-10) 10 March 1993 (age 31)[1]
Kocho, Sinjar District, Iraq
Years active
2014–present
Organization
Nadia's Initiative
Known for
Surviving the Yazidi genocide
Notable work
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State (2017)
Spouse
Abid Shamdeen
(m. 2018)
Awards
See list:
Sakharov Prize (2016)
Nobel Peace Prize (2018)
Council of Europe Vaclav Havel Prize for Freedom of Thought (2016)
Clinton Global Citizen Award (2016)
Hillary Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security (2018)
United Nations Association of Spain Peace Prize (2017)
International DVF Award (2019)
Bambi Award (2019)
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 community was massacred.[5] 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.
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, which is dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocides, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities" as a non-profit organization whose establishment was prompted by the Sinjar massacre.[6]
In 2018, she and Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."[7] She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to have been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.[8]
In 2016, Murad was appointed as the first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.[9]
^"Nadia Murad on Instagram". Instagram. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^Siddique, Haroon; Maclean, Ruth (5 October 2018). "Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad – as it happened". The Guardian.
^"Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad". Deutsche Welle. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
^"Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad gets married". Ekurd.net. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^Westcott, Lucy (19 March 2016). "ISIS sex slavery survivor on a mission to save Yazidi women and girls". Newsweek. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
^"Nadia Murad". Forbes. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^"Announcement" (PDF). The Nobel Peace Prize. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^"Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad". BBC News. 5 October 2018.
^"Human trafficking survivor Nadia Murad named UNODC Goodwill Ambassador". United Nations. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
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