1/ Nadia Murad, a 2018 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was 21 when she was enslaved by Islamic State fighters in Iraq. She escaped, and now she draws awareness to the plight of the Yazidi people and fights to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.https://n.pr/2ylCjdl
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5/ Murad’s own mother was among dozens of older Yazidi women executed by ISIS. When asked what those women would think about her advocacy and her Nobel Peace prize, she says, “I feel like they will be proud.”
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6/ At 25, Murad has just gotten engaged. She hopes to continue her work and also, she says, “I want to be able to live a simple life and just be safe.”https://n.pr/2ykSzvu
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7/ Nadia Murad is now the second-youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient.https://n.pr/2ylCjdl
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