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Nadia Murad

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize · born March 10, 1993

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Nadia Murad Basee Taha 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.

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  1. ~23Received the Sakharov Prize2016
  2. 23Became goodwill ambassadorSeptember 16, 2016
  3. ~25Received the Nobel Peace Prize2018
  4. ~31Named BBC 100 Women2024

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