“When you listen to Nadia Murad’s story you realize the importance of the rule of law and due process, which must be sustained.”
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Nadia Murad’s New York Times Op-Ed: Three years ago I was one of thousands of Yazidi women kidnapped by the Islamic State and sold into slavery. I endured rape, torture and humiliation at the hands of multiple militants before I escaped.
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Despite recent gains against ISIS in Iraq, many Yazidis still remain in captivity. As a story that hasn’t yet ended, “The Last Girl” is difficult to process.
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Sundance Film Festival announces screening times for ON HER SHOULDERS, co-produced by Uncommon Union’s co-founder.
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Thanks to the quick and determined help of the State of Baden-Württemberg, 1100 women and children had the chance to come to Germany and receive urgently needed medical and psychological help.
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Nadia's Initiative team members Nadia Murad, Abid Shamdeen and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown meet with British Home Secretary Amber Rudd MP and MP Robert Jenrick.
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I now know that I was born in the heart of the crimes committed against me.
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Watch at Council on Foreign Relations.
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Nadia met with President Marcon on November 5, 2017, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Nadia briefed the President on a number of issues, including; her personal story and the struggle of thousands of women who were taken captive by ISIS in 2014.
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In “The Last Girl,” Nadia Murad tells the story of her captivity along with other members of her Yazidi village of Kocho. It is an intimate account of what she calls “a slow, painful death — of the body and the soul.”
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Today the United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution put forward by the UK that will create an investigation into the war crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi people.
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The Iraqi Government needs to ensure that the thousands of women and girls who survived rape and other forms of sexual violence by ISIL fighters receive care, protection, and justice and that children born as a result of such violence do not face a life of discrimination and abuse, a UN report published today says.
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Amal Clooney is one giant step closer to achieving her longtime goal of holding ISIS accountable for its war crimes.
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Britain, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad, a woman from the Yazidi religious minority who was enslaved and raped by Islamic State fighters in Mosul, have been pushing Iraq to allow a U.N. inquiry.
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Today, 3 August 2017, marks the third anniversary of the genocide against the Yazidi.
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“We must stand with every child who is uprooted by war, violence and poverty and climate change.”
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“ It was my great honor to sponsor and participate in the opening ceremony of the Hamburg "Day of Exile”.
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With tears streaming down my face, I have received the news that my village of Kocho is being liberated by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Force.
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The International Community must do more to fight terrorism & extremism. Terrorists must be held accountable for their crimes everywhere in the world.
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Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey
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