The Nobel Peace Prize 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-05
"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"
Nadia Murad Basee Taha
Born: 1993-03-10 in Kojo, Iraq
Gender: female
Field: Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Biography
Nadia Murad Basee Taha 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.