Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad Basee (; born 1993) is a German-based Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. 

In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Prize.

Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization who work to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".

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Category:1993 births
Category:Living people
Category:Iraqi human rights activists
Category:Humanitarians
Category:German human rights activists
Category:Yazidis
Category:Nobel Peace Prize winners