Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad
نادیە موراد
	Murad in 2018
Born	Nadia Murad Basee Taha; 10 March 1993; Kocho, Iraq
Notable work	The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State; Nadia's Initiative;
Spouse	Abid Shamdeen (m. 2018)
Awards	Sakharov Prize (2016); Nobel Peace Prize (2018); Council of Europe Vaclav Havel Prize for Freedom of Thought (2016); Clinton Global Citizen Award (2016); Hillary Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security (2018); United Nations Association of Spain Peace Prize (2017); International DVF Award (2019); Bambi Award (2019);

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا،, romanized: Nadiye Murad Besê Taha; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is a Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.

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

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

In 2016, Murad was appointed as the first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

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