Nagham Nawzat Hasan

Nagham Nawzat Hasan (Arabic: نغم نوزات حسن ) or Nagham Nawzat is a doctor from Iraq. In 2015 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Nagham Nawzat Hasan is a Kurdish Yazidi gynecologist. She works with Yazidi girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS).

After the city of Sinjar fell in 2014, ISIL killed many Yezidi men and enslaved many Yezidi women.  Hasan rescued many Yezidi girls. She gave psychological and medical help. She visits Yezidi people in refugee camps to encourage girls to visit her clinic. She started a program against sexual abuse called "I am Yezidi – I am against harassment."

 Awards 

 Solidar Human Rights Silver Rose award, 2016.
 International Women of Courage Award, 2016.

 Other websites 

 2016 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

 References  

Category:Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Category:Kurdish activists
Category:Living people
Category:Gynecologists
Category:Yazidis