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{{short description|Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Nadia Murad
| image              = Nadia Murad in Washington - 2018 (42733243785) (cropped).jpg
| alt                = Nadia Murad in 2018
| caption            = Murad in 2018
| native_name        = {{nobold|نادیە موراد}}
| native_name_lang   = ku
| birth_name         = Nadia Murad Basee Taha
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1993|03|10|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7cWA3MCk-/|title=Nadia Murad on Instagram|date=10 March 2022|website=Instagram|access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref>
| birth_place        = Kocho, Iraq
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| citizenship        = 
| notable_works      = {{Plainlist|
* ''The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State''
* Nadia's Initiative}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|Abid Shamdeen|19 August 2018}}
| awards             = {{Plainlist|
* Sakharov Prize (2016)
* Nobel Peace Prize (2018)
* Council of Europe Vaclav Havel Prize for Freedom of Thought (2016)
* Clinton Global Citizen Award (2016)
* [https://giwps.georgetown.edu/award_type/hrc-award/ Hillary Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security] (2018)
* United Nations Association of Spain Peace Prize (2017)
* [https://www.dvf.com/dvf-awards/ International DVF Award] (2019)
* Bambi Award (2019)}}
}}

'''Nadia Murad Basee Taha''' ({{Lang-ku|نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا،|translit=Nadiye Murad Besê Taha}}; {{lang-ar|نادية مراد باسي طه}}; born 10 March 1993)<ref>{{cite web |title=Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad gets married |url=https://ekurd.net/yazidi-nadia-murad-married-2018-08-20 |website=Ekurd.net |date=20 August 2018|access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref> is a [[Unsolved:Yazidis|Yazidi]]<ref>{{cite web |author1= |title=Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad |url=https://www.dw.com/en/nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-denis-mukwege-and-nadia-murad/a-45763215 |website=Deutsche Welle |date=5 October 2018|access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref> [[Social:Human rights activists|human rights activist]] who lives in {{wipe|Germany}}.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Siddique |first1=Haroon |last2=Maclean |first2=Ruth |date=5 October 2018 |title=Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad – as it happened |journal=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/oct/05/nobel-peace-prize-2018-live-updates}}</ref> In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the [[Religion:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] for three months.<ref name=Newsweek-Testimony-2016>{{cite news|last1=Westcott|first1=Lucy|title=ISIS sex slavery survivor on a mission to save Yazidi women and girls|url=http://www.newsweek.com/nadia-murad-isis-sex-slavery-yazidi-438421|access-date=22 September 2016|work=Newsweek|date=19 March 2016}}</ref>

Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocides, mass atrocities, and [[Social:Human trafficking|human trafficking]] to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".<ref name="FM">{{cite web |title=Nadia Murad |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/nadia-murad/ |work=Forbes |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>

In 2018, she and [[Biography:Denis Mukwege|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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.nobelprize.org/pea-press.pdf?_ga=2.201315175.873660876.1538722964-1765660518.1538398809|title=Announcement|work=The Nobel Peace Prize|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005154231/https://old.nobelprize.org/pea-press.pdf?_ga=2.201315175.873660876.1538722964-1765660518.1538398809|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45759669|title=Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad|journal=BBC News|date=5 October 2018}}</ref>

In 2016, Murad was appointed as the first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking for the [[Organization:United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime|United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]] (UNODC).<ref>{{cite web |title=Human trafficking survivor Nadia Murad named UNODC Goodwill Ambassador |url=https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2016/September/human-trafficking-survivor-nadia-murad-named-unodc-goodwill-ambassador.html |website=United Nations |access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq, populated mostly by Yazidi people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/who-is-the-nobel-peace-prize-2018-winner-nadia-murad-1.777517|title=Who is the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winner Nadia Murad?|website=The National|date=5 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="DW 2">{{cite web |author1= |date=10 December 2018 |title=Nadia Murad: One woman's fight against 'Islamic State' |url=https://www.dw.com/en/nadia-murad-one-womans-fight-against-islamic-state/a-36172104 |access-date=2 September 2021 |website=Deutsche Welle}}</ref> Her family, of the [[Unsolved:Yazidis|Yazidi]] minority, were farmers.<ref name=UNTV-Testimony-2015>{{cite news|last1=Murad Basee Taha|first1=Nadia|title=Nadia Murad Basee Taha (ISIL victim) on Trafficking of persons in situations of conflict – Security Council, 7585th meeting|url=http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/nadia-murad-basee-taha-isil-victim-on-trafficking-of-persons-in-situations-of-conflict-security-council-7585th-meeting/4665835954001|access-date=21 September 2016|work=United Nations Television (UNTV)|date=16 December 2015|format=Video}}</ref> 

Murad is the youngest of 11 children, not including her four older half siblings. Murad's father married her mother after the death of his first wife, who left him with four children. Both of her parents were devout Yazidis, though Murad did not know much about the religion growing up. Murad's father died in 2003.
 
As a child, Murad dreamed of owning a hair salon. She was attached to her home and never imagined leaving Kocho to live elsewhere.

== Activism ==
=== Capture by ISIS ===
At the age of 19, Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village, killing 600 people – including her mother and six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers – and taking the younger women and girls into slavery. That year, Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq.<ref name="UNTV-GoodwillAppointment-2016">{{cite news|title=Appointment Ceremony of Ms. Nadia Murad Basee Taha As UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking on the Occasion of the International Day of Peace|url=http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/appointment-ceremony-of-ms.-nadia-murad-basee-taha-as-unodc-goodwill-ambassador-for-the-dignity-of-survivors-of-human-trafficking-on-the-occasion-of-the-international-day-of-peace/5128825128001#full-text|access-date=21 September 2016|work=United Nations Television (UNTV)|date=16 September 2016|format=Video}}</ref> She was captured on 15 August 2014.<ref name="time">{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Charlotte|title=A Yezidi Woman Who Escaped ISIS Slavery Tells Her Story|url=http://time.com/4152127/isis-yezidi-woman-slavery-united-nations/|access-date=18 December 2016|magazine=Time|date=20 December 2015}}</ref> She was held as a slave in the city of [[Place:Mosul|Mosul]], where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped repeatedly. She successfully escaped after her captor left the house unlocked.<ref name="time" /> Murad was taken in by a neighboring family, who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State controlled area, allowing her to make her way to a refugee camp in [[Place:Duhok|Duhok]], Kurdistan Region.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Collard |first1=Rebecca |title=He Helped Iraq's Most Famous Refugee Escape ISIS. Now He's the One Who Needs Help |url=http://time.com/longform/nadia-murad-isis-refugee-omar-jabar/ |magazine={{wipe|Time (magazine)}} |access-date=11 November 2018 |language=en |date=13 July 2018}}</ref> She was out of ISIS territory in early September<ref name="lalibre">{{cite news|last1=Lamfalussy|first1=Christophe|date=22 February 2015|title=La sixième nuit j'ai été violée par tous les gardes, Salman a dit: elle est à vous maintenant|language=fr|work=La Libre Belgique|url=http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/la-sixieme-nuit-j-ai-ete-violee-par-tous-les-gardes-salman-a-dit-elle-est-a-vous-maintenant-54e9fd2a35701001a1dfe527}}</ref> or in November 2014.<ref name="time" />
 
In February 2015, she gave her first testimony – under the alias of "Basima" – to reporters of the Belgian daily newspaper ''La Libre Belgique'' while she was staying in the Rwanga camp, living in a converted shipping container.<ref name="lalibre" /> In 2015, she was one of 1,000 women and children to benefit from a refugee programme of the Government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which became her new home.<ref name=Time-Escaped-2015>{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Charlotte|title=Yezidi Girl Who Escaped Isis Sex Slavery: Please Help Us|url=http://time.com/4152127/isis-yezidi-woman-slavery-united-nations/|access-date=19 September 2016|magazine={{wipe|Time (magazine)}}|date=20 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=Vice-Broadly-2016>{{cite news|last1=Whyte|first1=Lara|title='Every Part of Me Changed in Their Hands': A Former ISIS Sex Slave Speaks Out|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/every-part-of-me-changed-in-their-hands-former-isis-sex-slave-nadia-murad-speaks-out|access-date=19 September 2016|work=Broadly|date=18 February 2016}}</ref>

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Vienna+25 Building Trust – Making Human Rights a Reality for All (28411536318).jpg|thumb|Human Rights panel in Vienna in 2018: left to right: 1 Abid Shamdeen 2 Nadia Murad 3 Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein 4 Karin Kneissl 5 Michael O'Flaherty 6 Hauwa Ibrahim 7 Max Schrems 8 Susana Chiarotti]]

On 16 December 2015, Murad spoke to the United Nations Security Council about [[Social:Human trafficking|human trafficking]] and conflict. This was the first time the Council was ever briefed on human trafficking.<ref name=UNTV-Testimony-2015 /><ref>{{cite news|script-title=ar:ظهورجريء للفتاة الازيديية نادية مراد ابكى اعضاءً في مجلس الامن وصفق لها الحاضرون|url=http://www.iraqpressagency.com/?p=175408&lang=ar|work=Iraq Press Agency |date=18 December 2015|access-date=5 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804012507/https://www.iraqpressagency.com/?p=175408&lang=ar|archive-date=4 August 2017}}</ref> In 2016, Murad was named the first UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. As part of her role as an ambassador, Murad participates in global and local advocacy initiatives to bring awareness of human trafficking and refugees.<ref name=WashingtonTimes-ClooneyMuradOverview-2016 /> Murad has reached out to refugee and survivor communities, listening to testimonies of victims of trafficking and genocide.<ref name=NBC-ClooneyRepresentation-2016 />

In September 2016, Attorney Amal Clooney spoke before the [[Organization:United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime|United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]] (UNODC) to discuss the decision that she had made in June 2016<ref name=NYTimes-YazidiGenocide-Clooney-2016>{{cite news|last1=Allum|first1=Cynthia|title=Exclusive: Amal Clooney to represent ISIS survivor Nadia Murad and victims of Yazidi genocide|url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/06/09/amal-clooney-to-represent-isis-survivor-nadia-murad-and-victims-of-yazidi-genocide/|access-date=24 September 2016|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=9 June 2016|archive-date=17 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217005331/http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/06/09/amal-clooney-to-represent-isis-survivor-nadia-murad-and-victims-of-yazidi-genocide/|url-status=dead}}</ref> to represent Murad as a client in legal action against ISIL commanders.<ref name=WashingtonTimes-ClooneyMuradOverview-2016>{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Elise|title=Amal Clooney, George's wife, takes on U.N. and ISIS|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/19/amal-clooney-takes-on-isis-at-un/|access-date=22 September 2016|work=The Washington Times|date=19 September 2016}}</ref><ref name=NBC-ClooneyRepresentation-2016>{{cite news|last1=McFadden|first1=Cynthia|last2=Whitman|first2=Jake|last3=Rappleye|first3=Hannah|title=Amal Clooney Takes on ISIS for 'Clear Case of Genocide' of Yazidis'|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amal-clooney-takes-isis-clear-case-genocide-yazidis-n649126|access-date=19 September 2016|publisher=NBC News|date=19 September 2016}}</ref><ref name=People-ClooneyRepresentation-2016>{{cite news|last1=Lara|first1=Maria Mercedes|title=Watch: Amal Clooney Reveals She and George Talked About the 'Risks' of Taking on ISIS – 'I Mean, This Is My Work'|url=http://www.people.com/article/amal-clooney-nadia-murad-isis-trafficking-victim-video|access-date=19 September 2016|work=People|date=19 September 2016}}</ref> Clooney characterized the genocide, rape, and trafficking by ISIL as a "bureaucracy of evil on an industrial scale", describing it as a slave market existing online, on Facebook and in the Mideast that is still active today.<ref name=UNTV-GoodwillAppointment-2016 /> Murad has received serious threats to her safety as a result of her work.<ref name=UNTV-Testimony-2015 />
[[File:NadiaMuradPlakatLalish300916.JPG|thumb|Poster of Nadia Murad speaking to the UN Security Council at the Yazidi Temple of Lalish, Ninawa]]

In September 2016, Murad announced Nadia's Initiative at an event hosted by Tina Brown in New York City. The Initiative intends to provide advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide.<ref name=UncommonUnion-NadiasInitiative>{{cite web|title=Nadia's Initiative|url=http://uncommonunion.com/nadias-initiative/|website=Uncommon Union|access-date=9 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131081319/http://uncommonunion.com/nadias-initiative/|archive-date=31 January 2017}}</ref> 

=== Continued activism ===

On 3 May 2017, Murad met Pope Francis and Archbishop Paul Gallagher in [[Religion:Vatican City|Vatican City]]. During the meeting, she "asked for help for Yazidis who are still in ISIS captivity, acknowledged the Vatican support for minorities, discussed the scope for an autonomous region for minorities in Iraq, highlighted the current situation and challenges facing religious minorities in Iraq and Syria particularly the victims and internally displaced people as well as immigrants".<ref name="pope">{{cite web|url=http://www.nadiamurad.org/blog/2017/5/8/a-meeting-with-his-holiness-pope-francis| title=A Meeting with his Holiness Pope Francis| date=8 May 2017| website=nadiamurad.org| access-date=23 October 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028134504/http://www.nadiamurad.org/blog/2017/5/8/a-meeting-with-his-holiness-pope-francis| archive-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

In 2018, Murad's activism focused on security and accountability.  Along Nadia's Initiative, Murad worked with the Mine's Advisory Group (MAG) to demine more than 2.6 million square meters of land in Sinjar, Iraq. She was also instrumental in drafting and passing UN Security Council Resolution 2379. The resolution called for the creation of an Investigative Team, headed by a Special Advisor, to support domestic efforts to hold ISIL (Da'esh) accountable by collecting, preserving, and storing evidence in Iraq of acts that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed by the terrorist group ISIL (Da'esh). 

Murad's activism focused on accountability and gender equality in 2019, as she aided in the prosecution of an ISIL militant's wife in Germany and the collection of evidence of ISIL crimes. Murad worked with the German Mission to the UN to help draft and pass UN Security Council Resolution 2467 in April 2019. The resolution expands the UN's commitments to end sexual violence in conflict and emphasizes a survivor-centric approach to justice and accountability. Murad also took part in advocating for G7 member states to adopt legislation that protects and promotes women's rights as a member of France's Gender Advisory Council.

Murad urged the government of the Iraqi Kurdistan region to play its role in rebuilding Yazidi areas in Sinjar District and returning the refugees back home. Nechirvan Barzani announced his full support “to the humanitarian role she plays in service of peace and the [[Unsolved:Yazidis|Yazidi]] victims,” said the statement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nadia Murad Urges Kurdistan Government to Work on Rebuilding Yazidi Areas |url=https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/1504436/nadia-murad-urges-kurdistan-government-work-rebuilding-yazidi-areas |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Asharq AL-awsat |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad arrives in Kurdistan, meets with senior Kurdish leaders |url=https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/18280-Nobel-Peace-Prize-winner-Nadia-Murad-arrives-in-Kurdistan,-meets-with-senior-Kurdish-leaders}}</ref>

In 2019, Murad addressed the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/2019-ministerial-to-advance-religious-freedom/|title=2019 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom|publisher=US Department of State}}</ref> where she spoke about her story and the ongoing challenges faced by Yazidis nearly five years after the 3 August 2014 attacks. She laid out a "five-point plan of action" to address the challenges Yazidis face in Iraq.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/07/24/nadia-murad-explains-the-blueprint-to-help-religious-communities-in-iraq/|title=Nadia Murad Explains The Blueprint To Help Religious Communities In Iraq|last=Ochab|first=Ewelina U.|magazine=Forbes|language=en|date=24 July 2019|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom (Tuesday Part 2 of 3)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F8ypz9D8u8|language=en|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> Murad was included among a delegation of survivors of religious persecution from around the world whose stories were highlighted at the summit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/biographies-of-survivors/|title=Biographies of Survivors|department=Nadia Murad|website=United States Department of State|language=en-US|date=16 July 2019|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> As part of the delegation, on 17 July 2019, Murad met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with whom she shared her personal story of having lost her family members, including her mother and six brothers, and pleaded with him to do something.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/nobel-peace-price-yazidi-oval-office/index.html|title=Trump Oval Office exchange with Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights tension over immigration|author=Saffeya Ahmed|website=CNN|date=19 July 2019|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref>

In 2020, Murad began working with the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) and the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) of the United Kingdom government to establish the Murad Code. The Code is a global consultative initiative aimed at building and supporting a community of better practice for, with, and concerning survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. Its key objective is to respect and support survivors' rights, ensuring work with survivors to investigate, document, and record their experiences is safer, more ethical, and more effective in upholding their human rights.<ref>{{cite web |title=Murad Code Project |url=https://www.muradcode.com/ |website=Murad Code Project}}</ref>

On 6 February 2021, the Yazidi community buried 104 victims of the Kocho massacre, including two of Nadia's brothers and her mother. The ceremony was marked by both grief and closure, as many survivors were finally able to lay their family members to rest over six years after the genocide. It was also a visceral reminder of the urgent need to exhume all mass graves throughout Sinjar. In March 2021, the Iraqi Parliament passed the long-awaited Yazidi Female Survivors Law. The law formally acknowledges the Yazidi genocide and the gender-based trauma of sexual violence against Yazidi women and other ethnic minorities. It lays the groundwork for paying reparations, and guarantees land and job opportunities for survivors of ISIL captivity. Murad worked with Iraqi authorities and the Coalition for Just Reparations to draft and advocate for the law, as well as its ongoing implementation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iraqi Parliament Passes Yazidi Survivors Bill |url=https://www.nadiasinitiative.org/news/iraqi-parliament-passes-yazidi-survivors-bill |website=Nadia's Initiative}}</ref>

In May 2021, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL (UNITAD) presented landmark findings to the UN Security Council. UNITAD's Special Advisor, Karim Khan, reported to the Security Council that "there is clear and convincing evidence that the crimes against the Yazidi people clearly constituted genocide." Murad joined the proceedings to call on member states to establish international trials and support national efforts to prosecute ISIL members for their crimes of genocide and sexual violence.

In November 2021, a scheduled book club event in Canada with Nadia as a speaker was boycotted by the superintendent at the Toronto District School Board Helen Fisher, who declared the students from her school would not participate over fear of offending Islamic students and fostering Islamophobia. The move drew wide criticism, and the board was forced to clarify that these views were not their official position.<ref>{{cite web |title=School pulls event with former Islamic State sex slave over fears it would 'foster Islamophobia' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/24/school-pulls-event-former-islamic-state-sex-slave-fears-would/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=2021-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317095358/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/24/school-pulls-event-former-islamic-state-sex-slave-fears-would/ |archive-date=2023-03-17 |url-status=live |last1=Johnson |first1=Jamie |last2=Farmer |first2=Ben}}</ref>

In 2022, Murad, along with Nadia's Initiative, the Institute for International Criminal Investigation, and the UK government, released the Murad Code. She spoke about its benefits at the United Nations Security Council open debate on "Accountability as Prevention: Ending Cycles of Sexual Violence in Conflict Open Debate on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence."

== Nadia's Initiative ==
In September 2016, Murad announced Nadia's Initiative at an event hosted by Tina Brown in New York City. The Initiative intends to provides advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadia's Initiative |url=http://uncommonunion.com/nadias-initiative/ |website=Uncommon Union |access-date=9 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131081319/http://uncommonunion.com/nadias-initiative/ |archive-date=31 January 2017}}</ref> That same month, she was named the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC).

== Global Survivors Fund ==
With her fellow 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Murad founded the Global Survivors Fund in October 2019. The Fund works to ensure that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence globally have access to reparations and other forms of redress.

The Global Survivors Fund (GSF) builds on the advocacy efforts of the Office of the United Nations' Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC). The UN Secretary-General endorsed GSF in a statement in April 2019, and Security Council Resolution 2467 referenced GSF. The G7 also confirmed its support for GSF in its Declaration on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in August 2019.

== Writings ==
=== Memoir ===
Murad's memoir, ''The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State'', was published by Crown Publishing Group on 7 November 2017, which is an autobiographical in which she describes being captured and enslaved by the Islamic State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nadiamurad.org/nadias-memoir/2017/8/17/the-last-girl| title=The Last Girl| date=17 August 2017| website=nadiamurad.org| access-date=23 October 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227172859/http://www.nadiamurad.org/nadias-memoir/2017/8/17/the-last-girl| archive-date=27 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet| user=NadiaMuradBasee| number=922532535091040256| title=Honored to announce my memoir THE LAST GIRL will be published by @CrownPublishingGroup on Nov 7th| date=23 October 2017}}</ref> The book has been released in 44 languages including French ({{lang|fr|Pour que je sois la dernière}}), German ({{lang|de|Ich bin eure Stimme: Das Mädchen, das dem Islamischen Staat entkam und gegen Gewalt und Versklavung kämpft}}), Arabic ({{lang|ar|الفتاة الاخيرة: قصتي مع الأسر ومعركتي ضد تنظيم داعش}}), Italian ({{lang|it|L'ultima ragazza}}), and Spanish ({{lang|es|Yo seré la última: Historia de mi cautiverio y mi lucha contra el Estado Islámico}}).

== Personal life ==
On 19 August 2018, Murad married fellow Yazidi human rights activist Abid Shamdeen in Germany.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad gets married |url=https://ekurd.net/yazidi-nadia-murad-married-2018-08-20 |website=Ekurd.net |date=20 August 2018|access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45245173|title=Yazidi Islamic State survivor gets engaged|journal=BBC News|date=20 August 2018|access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CwHn6AzO99Y/|title=Nadia Murad on Instagram|date=19 August 2023|website=Instagram|access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
=== Nobel Peace Prize ===
[[File:Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege receives Nobel Peace Prize 2018.jpg|thumb|Murad and Denis Mukwege receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018]]
In 2018, Murad was co-winner (with [[Biography:Denis Mukwege|Denis Mukwege]], an African gynaecologist) of the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for the efforts of both people to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. The press release from the prize committee cited her refusal to remain 'silent and ashamed', and spoke of her courage in highlighting her own ordeal and that of other victims.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadia Murad: Nobel Peace Prize lecture 2018 (English subtitles) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqB0cMvGnIk |website=YouTube |publisher=Nobel Prize |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>

=== Other prizes ===
* 2016: First Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations<ref name=UNTV-GoodwillAppointment-2016 /><ref name=UNODC-GoodwillAmbassador-PreEvent-2016>{{cite news|last1=Monasebian|first1=Simone|title=Nadia Murad Basee Taha to be appointed Goodwill Ambassador by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on 16th September|url=http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2016/September/nadia-murad-basee-taha-to-be-appointed-goodwill-ambassador-by-united-nations-office-on-drugs-and-crime-on-16-september.html|access-date=21 September 2016|work=[[Organization:United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime|United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]] (UNODC)|date=14 September 2016}}</ref>
* 2016: Council of Europe Václav Havel Award for Human Rights<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-en.asp?newsid=6344&lang=2|title=Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2016 awarded to Nadia Murad|website=PACE News|access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2016: Glamour Award for The Women Who Stood Up to ISIS
* 2016: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (with Lamiya Haji Bashar)<ref name=Sakharov-BeatrizBecerra-2016>{{cite news|title=Why I am nominating Nadia Murad for Sakharov Prize|url=http://beatrizbecerra.eu/2016/09/12/why-i-am-nominating-nadia-murad-for-sakharov-prize/|access-date=8 October 2016|work=Beatriz Becerra|date=12 September 2016}}</ref><ref name=EurActiv-Sakharov-2016>{{cite news|last1=Becerra Basterrechea|first1=Beatriz|title=Yazidi genocide victims deserve European Parliament prize|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/yazidi-genocide-victims-deserve-european-parliament-prize/|access-date=8 October 2016|work=EurActiv|date=20 July 2016}}</ref><ref name=Sakharov-Reuters-2016>{{cite news|title=EU Parliament awards Sakharov prize to Yazidi women|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-prize-idUSKCN12R14X?il=0|date=27 October 2016}}</ref>
* 2016: Clinton Global Citizen Award<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barsamian |first1=Edward |title=Former President Bill Clinton, Sting, and Nadia Murad at the 10th Annual Clinton Global Citizen Awards |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/bill-clinton-sting-nadia-murad-10th-annual-clinton-global-citizen-awards |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Vogue |date=26 September 2016}}</ref>
* 2016: United Nations Association of Spain Peace Prize<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadia Murad Basee |url=https://anue.org/en/peace-prize-winners/nadia-murad-basee-3/ |website=United Nations Association of Spain |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2016: TIME 100 Most Influential People<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Ensler |first1=Eve |title=Nadia Murad |url=https://time.com/collection-post/4302382/nadia-murad-2016-time-100/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |magazine=TIME |date=21 April 2016}}</ref>
* 2016: Oxi Courage Award<ref>{{cite web |title=2016 Oxi Courage Award Recipient Nadia Murad Wins 2018 Nobel Peace Prize |url=https://oxidayfoundation.org/2016-oxi-courage-award-recipient-nadia-murad-wins-2018-nobel-peace-prize/ |website=The Washington Oxi Day Foundation |date=9 October 2018 |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2017: Forbes 30 Under 30<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadia Murad |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/nadia-murad/?sh=5ebad3a6adc2 |website=Forbes |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2018: Nobel Peace Prize (with [[Biography:Denis Mukwege|Denis Mukwege]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/world/nobel-peace-prize.html|title=Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for Fighting Sexual Violence|last1=Callimachi|first1=Rukmini|date=5 October 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=5 October 2018|last2=Gettleman|first2=Jeffrey|last3=Kulish|first3=Nicholas|last4=Mueller|first4=Benjamin}}</ref>
* 2018: Hillary Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security<ref>{{cite web |last1=Selby |first1=Daniele |title=Hillary Clinton Gives Human Rights Award to ISIS Survivor Nadia Murad |url=https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/nadia-murad-isis-yazidi-refugee-hillary-clinton-aw/ |website=Global Citizen |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2018: Global Goals Changemaker Award<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Goalkeepers18 - Nadia Murad, Goalkeepers Changemaker Award Winner |publisher=The Global Goals |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWtdwmgPkbY |via=YouTube |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2018: Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award<ref>{{cite web |title=Harvard Humanitarian Initiative |url=https://twitter.com/hhi/status/1047949711477526528 |website=Twitter |publisher=Harvard Humanitarian Initiative |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2019: Bambi Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rnd.de/medien/friedensnobelpreistragerin-nadia-murad-mit-bambi-geehrt-WJ6Z7R7DO4SOACR3QMKHOSLHO4.html|title=Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Nadia Murad mit Bambi geehrt|date=21 November 2019|website=landeszeitung.de|language=de-DE|access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref>
* 2019: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=Achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=2019 Summit Highlights Photo | url= https://achievement.org/summit/2019/|quote= Rita Dove, former United States Poet Laureate, presenting the Golden Plate Award to Nadia Murad, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, during the Banquet of the Golden Plate Award gala at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.}}</ref>
* 2019: International DVF Award<ref>{{cite news |last1=Potters |first1=Jaimie |title=Anita Hill, Katy Perry, and Nadia Murad Honored at the 2019 DVF Awards |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a27080496/2019-dvf-awards-anita-hill-katy-perry-nadia-murad/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=ELLE |date=12 April 2019}}</ref>
* 2019: Seton Hall University Honorary Doctorate<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff Writer |title=Nobel laureate receives honorary degree from SHU |url=https://www.thesetonian.com/article/2019/10/nobel-laureate-receives-honorary-degree-from-shu |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=The Setonian |publisher=Seton Hall University |date=4 October 2019}}</ref>
* 2019: Marisa Bellisario International Prize<ref>{{cite web |title=IL PREMIO MARISA BELLISARIO |url=https://www.fondazionebellisario.org/il-premio/edizioni-del-premio-marisa-bellisario/2019-2/ |website=Fondazione Marisa Bellisario |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2020: Vital Voices Global Trailblazer Award<ref>{{cite web |title=THE VITAL VOICES GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS |url=https://www.vitalvoices.org/program/honoree-program/ |website=Vital Voices |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2020: Justice O'Connor Prize<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadia Murad accepts O'Connor Justice Prize |url=https://news.asu.edu/20200216-global-engagement-nadia-murad-accepts-o%E2%80%99connor-justice-prize |website=ASU News |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2020: Frank and Cheri Hermance Atlas Award<ref>{{cite web |title=Frank and Cheri Hermance Atlas Award |url=https://wacphila.org/events/2020-atlas-award |website=World Affairs Council of Philadelphia |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
* 2021: UC Merced Spendlove Prize<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flores |first1=Juan |title=Nobel Laureate and Human Rights Activist Nadia Murad Celebrated as 14th Recipient of Spendlove Prize |url=https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2021/nobel-laureate-and-human-rights-activist-nadia-murad-celebrated-14th-recipient-spendlove |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=UC Merced Newsroom |publisher=UC Merced |date=4 November 2021}}</ref>
* 2022: Chapman University Presidential Fellow<ref>{{cite news |last1=DUMOSKI |first1=STACI |title=Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad Appointed as Chapman University Presidential Fellow |url=https://news.chapman.edu/2022/03/22/nobel-peace-laureate-nadia-murad-appointed-as-chapman-university-presidential-fellow/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Chapman University Newsroom |publisher=Chapman University |date=22 March 2022}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* Nadia Murad: ''The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State'' (Virago eBook, 7 November 2017), {{ISBN|978-0-349-00974-2}} (English)
* Nadia Murad: ''Ich bin eure Stimme: Das Mädchen, das dem Islamischen Staat entkam und gegen Gewalt und Versklavung kämpft'' (Knaur eBook, 31 October 2017), {{ISBN|978-3-426-21429-9}} (German)

== Filmography ==
* ''On Her Shoulders''{{cn|date=December 2023}}

== See also ==
* Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
* List of kidnappings
* List of solved missing person cases

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://nadiasinitiative.org Nadia's Initiative]
* {{Twitter}}
* [http://www.yazda.org Yazda.org]
* {{C-SPAN|102699}}
* {{Nobelprize}}

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