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Nadia Murad
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Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
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Nadia Murad, born Nadiyah in 1993 in Kocho, is an Iraqi lecturer and activist. She identifies with Yazidism and speaks Arabic and English. Her professional work in human rights began in 2014. She has served as a goodwill ambassador and is recognized as a political and social activist.
Murad has received several awards, including the Sakharov Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, and BBC 100 Women. Her contributions are acknowledged in the Nobel Peace collection.
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nadiyah
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iraq
- Place of birth
- Kocho
- Occupation
- social activist
- Position held
- goodwill ambassador
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Yazidism
- Award
- BBC 100 Women
- Field of work
- human rights
- Official website
- nadiasinitiative.org
- Image
- Nadia Murad 2023 (close-up).jpg
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- Commons category
- Nadia Murad
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiForHumanRights 2019
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- social media followers
- 201963
- name in native language
- نادية مراد
- date of birth
- 1993-03-10
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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.
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