Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nadia Murad Basee (Arabic: نادية مراد; born 1993) is a German-based Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months.[1]
Nadia Murad | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Nadia Murad (2018) | |
| Born | Nadia Murad Basee Taha 1993 (age 30–31) Kojo, Iraq |
| Citizenship | Iraqi/Kurdistani |
| Occupation | Human rights activist |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Awards | Sakharov Prize (2016) Nobel Peace Prize (2018) |
In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."[2] She is the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Prize.[3]
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization who work to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".[4]
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