Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad
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BornNadia Murad Basee Taha
1993 (age 30–31)
Kojo, Iraq
Notable wirk(s)The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
AwairdsSakharov Prize (2016)
Nobel Peace Prize (2018)

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Sorani Kurdish: نادیە موراد باسی تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه‎; born 1993) is a German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human richts activist. She wis kidnapped an held bi the Islamic State for three month. In 2018, she an Denis Mukwege war jyntly awairdit the Nobel Peace Prize for "thair efforts tae end the uise o sexual veeolence as a wappen o war an airmed conflict." She is the first Iraqi tae be awairdit a Nobel prize.

References

  1. ↑ Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad gets married – Ekurd.net
  2. ↑ Siddique, Haroon; Maclean, Ruth (5 October 2018). "Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad – as it happened". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ Westcott, Lucy (19 Mairch 2016). "ISIS sex slavery survivor on a mission to save Yazidi women and girls". Newsweek. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Announcement" (PDF). The Nobel Peace Prize. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad". BBC News. 5 October 2018.