Nadia Murad is a German-based Iraqi human rights activist who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 25.
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The Yazidi woman was awarded alongside a Congolese doctor, Denis Mukwege, for their efforts in ending the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Murad and about 3,000 other Yazidi women were kidnapped and sold into sex slavery by ISIS in 2014, as part of the terrorist group’s genocidal campaign to wipe out the religious minority.
Here are 9 things you should know about this admirable woman.
1. Her full name is Nadia Murad Basee Taha.
2. Murad was born in the village of Kojo in Sinjar District, Iraq.
3. She was taken into slavery by ISIS on 15 September 2014.
4. She escaped from the ISIS camp in November 2014.
5. Murad started living in Germany in 2015 after leaving the refugee camp.
6. Murad worked with the United Nations in global and local advocacy initiatives to bring awareness of human trafficking and refugees in December 2015.
7. In September 2016, she announced her initiative called “Murad’s Initiative” to provide advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide.
8. In 2016, she received her first award, and she was the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations.
9. Nadia Murad became the first Iraqi woman to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
