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Nadia Murad was born on January 14, 1993. She was born into a farming family in Kojo, Iraq. Nadia was a great student for what the village could provide, but at age 19 she was kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. In August 2014 she was sold into sex slavery.
She escaped three months later. Shortly thereafter she began speaking out about human trafficking and sexual violence.
In 2015 Murad left for Germany as part of a refugee program for survivors of ISIL. In December of that year she was asked to speak before the UN Security Council on human trafficking, an appearance that prompted a number of requests for interviews.
Two years after her being sold into sex slavery, she was appointed the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking in 2016.
In 2018 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
After that she founded Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to helping women and children victimized by genocides, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities. They have already reopened previously closed schools, restored clean water to places and rebuilded places destroyed by bad groups such as the ISIL. They plan to do much more. Many woman and girls look up to her as a strong role model fighting for people in need.

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