Nadia Murad survived from the worst cruelties ever inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2018.
Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the nobel prize for freedom for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. The nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo today.
The 25 year old girl,Murad, her thin, pale face framed by her long brown hair, once lived a quiet life in her village near the mountainous Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar in northern Iraq which is close to the border with Syria.
At the time when ISIS stormed across swathes of the two countries in 2014, her fate changed forever and her nightmare began. One day in August that year, pick-up trucks bearing the black flag of ISIS swept into her village, Kocho.
After being captured by ISIS terrorists, Murad was taken by force to Mosul, the de facto capital of the ISIS's self-declared caliphate. During her ordeal she was held captive and repeatedly gang raped, tortured and brutally beaten.
Murad and her friend Lamia Haji Bashar, joint recipients of the European Unions 2016 Sakharov human rights prize, continue the fight for the 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing, presumed still in captivity. She is now working as a United Nations goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking.
Murad and her friend Lamia Haji Bashar, joint recipients of the European Unions 2016 Sakharov human rights prize, continue the fight for the 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing, presumed still in captivity. She is now working as a United Nations goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking.
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