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Nadia Murad

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Also known as Murad Basee Taha, Nadia Murad Basee

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

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Nadia Murad is an Iraqi human rights activist, lecturer, and political activist. Born in Kocho in 1993, she holds Yazidism as her religion and speaks Arabic and English. Her work in the field of human rights began in 2014. She serves as a goodwill ambassador and is the author of several books, including *The Last Girl*, *YO SERE LA ULTIMA*, *Que eu Seja a última*, *Son Kız*, and *Ich bin eure Stimme*.

Murad has received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Sakharov Prize, the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, and recognition as part of the BBC 100 Women. Her organization, Nadia's Initiative, maintains an official website. She has stated that she wants to be the last girl in the world with a story like hers and has described being forced to leave one's home out of fear as a significant injustice.

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Person · Open Library

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Bangladesh

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
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Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,572x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  3. Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

    · 2011 · cited 8,331x

  4. Energies, structures, and electronic properties of molecules in solution with the C‐PCM solvation model

    · 2003 · cited 7,758x

  5. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,195x

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Quotes

  • “We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.”
  • “I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.”
  • “I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.”
  • “I still think that being forced to leave your home out of fear is one of the worst injustices a human being can face.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Peace Prize2018

    “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”

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Official website

Nadia's Initiative

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Encyclopedic overview

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq. Much of her community was massacred. After losing most of her family, Murad was held as an Islamic State sex slave for three months, alongside thousands of other Yazidi women and girls.

Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities". Its establishment was prompted by the Sinjar massacre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nadia Murad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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