Hello, friends! Today we're going to talk about Nadia Murad.Nadia Murad Basee Taha (born March 10, 1993) is a German-based Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. She was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in 2014 and held captive by the Islamic State for three months.
Murad founded Nadia's Initiative, an organisation dedicated to "assisting women and children who have been victims of genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking in healing and rebuilding their lives and communities."
She and Denis Mukwege shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Murad was named the first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for Human Dignity in 2016.
Murad was born in Iraq's Sinjar District, in the Yazidi-majority village of Kocho. Her father was a farmer from the Yazidi ethnic group.Murad is the youngest of 11 siblings, including four older half-siblings. After his first wife died, Murad's father married her mother, leaving him with four children. Murad's parents were both devout Yazidis, though as a child she knew little about the religion. Murad lost his father in 2003.Murad has always wanted to own a hair salon. She was devoted to her home and had never considered moving away from Kocho.
Activism
Murad was a student in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq, when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community, killing 600 people, including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers, and enslaving the younger women and girls. Murad was one of over 6,700 Yazidi women and girls kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq that year. She was apprehended on August 15, 2014. She was held as a slave in Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped on numerous occasions. She was able to flee after her captor left the house unlocked. Murad was taken in by a neighbouring family, who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State-controlled area and into a refugee camp in Duhok, Kurdistan Region. She left ISIS territory in early September or November of 2014.
In February 2015, while living in a converted shipping container in the Rwanga camp, she gave her first testimony to reporters from the Belgian daily newspaper La Libre Belgique under the alias "Basima." She was one of 1,000 women and children to benefit from the Government of Baden-refugee Württemberg's programme in 2015, which became her new home.
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