Nadia Murad

About Nadia Murad

An Iraqi human rights activist renowned for being seized by the Islamic State in 2014. She rose to prominence after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her work to abolish the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist living in Germany. In 2014, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho and detained by the Islamic State for three months. Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children who were victims of genocide, committing mass atrocities and human trafficking to heal and rebuild lives and communities. Their." In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize for “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”. She is Iraqi and the first Yazidi to receive the Nobel Prize. Currently, it supports the Sustainable Development Goals appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Notable work	The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, Nadia's Initiative
Born	Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 1993 (age 27–28), Kocho, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi

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Trivia

She is known for being the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded the Nobel prize. 

Nadia Murad before fame

She escaped as her captors neglected to lock the house after she was kidnapped and held as a slave in Mosul. Before presenting her initial testimony to media in February of 2015, she made it to a refugee camp in Duhok. She then founded Nadia's Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to assisting women and children.

Achievement of Nadia Murad

She is famous for becoming the first Iraqi and Yazidi woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Nadia Murad family life

She was born and reared in Kocho, Iraq, to a farming family that belonged to the Yazidi ethnic group.

Associations of Nadia Murad

Amal Clooney spoke on her behalf at the United Nations on behalf of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

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