Nadia Murad
Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
- Born
- 10 March 1993, Kocho
- Age
- 33
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (born 10 March 1993) 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.
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