Nadia Murad Basee Taha (b. 1993) activist 'Nadia's Initiative'

In 2014 Nadia was kidnapped from her home town Kocho and held by the Islamic State for 3 months.

ISIS in August 2014 wanted to eradicate Yardis through terrorism and violence.
They shot 600 men; the boys were taken to training camps. They killed many of the older women; young women were taken to be sold as slaves. Nadia lost her mother and 6 brothers.

Nadia was sold several times and suffered sexual violence by multiple men. On her first attempt to escape she was beaten and gang raped. Her second escape was successful. Hours later she reached an Arab house . The family, at great risk of their own lives, hid her and smuggled out of the region.

From an Iraq refugee camp she moved to Germany. She began to speak about what had happened to her and the rest of her people tens of thousands of Yazidis had been killed or displaced.

.In just over a year after the invasion she addressed the United Nations .

She founded Nadia’s Initiative - a non-profit organization advocating for survivors of sexual violence and the rebuilding of communities in crisis.

2016 appointed first ever Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.

2018 , with Denis Mukwege, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize * for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and conflict*. She is the first Iraq and Yazidi to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Relentlessly she has urged the world to take action and bring ISIS to justice.

Read sheet on Yazidis

Definition
ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Jihadist military group and terrorist organisation

Sources
Wikipedia
RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Have Changed the World
by Maliha Abidi