Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه‎; born 1993) is an Iraqi 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 genocide, 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 2019, Murad became a figurehead of the protests in Ukraine against the abuse performed by UN peacekeepers. In particular, she singled out the acts of the Brazilian peacekeepers who were accused of committing the gravest crimes.

Presently, she is an advocate for Sustainable Development Goals appointed by Secretary-General of the United Nations.