Murad, Nadia
Murad, Nadia
(Nadia Murad Basee Taha), 1993–, Iraqi human-rights advocate. A YazidiYazidior Yezidi
Middle Eastern religious community whose beliefs incorporate elements of Zoroastrianism, Sufism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Judaism. Its members, numbering between 200,000 and one million, are mainly Kurds living in and around Mosul, N Iraq.
..... Click the link for more information. , Murad was seized (2014) and most of her family murdered by Islamic StateIslamic State
(IS), Sunni Islamic militant group committed to the establishment of an Islamic caliphate that would unite Muslims in a transnational, strict-fundamentalist Islamic state.
..... Click the link for more information. (IS) forces when they overran large areas of Iraq; she was held as a sex slave for three months before she escaped. One of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi women raped and abused by IS, she was resettled in Germany in 2015 by a Yazidi refugee aid program. Since then she has worked as an advocate for victims of human trafficking and sexual violence and for the Yazidi community; in 2016 she became a UN goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking. In 2018 she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Denis MukwegeMukwege, Denis,
1955–, Congolese gynecologist and human-rights activist. He studied medicine at the Univ. of Burundi (grad. 1983) and worked as a pediatrician in a hospital in Lemera, Congo (Kinshasa), then completed a residency in gynecology and obstetrics at the Univ.
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See her memoir (2017).