On June 19th, International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Nadia's Initiative team participated in a NATO Digital Dialogue on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
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On July 15, Nadia Murad spoke at the Girl Up Campaign’s #GirlsLead20 Leadership Summit. Campaign speakers included Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, among others.
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Today, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, sees the launch of the draft Global Code of Conduct for the Documentation and Investigation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. It is named the “Murad Code,” after Nadia Murad, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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Nadia Murad raised spoke about protecting and supporting survivors at a UN virtual briefing on gender-based violence during COVID-19. and spoke of concrete steps taken by Nadia's Initiative towards accountability and prevention.
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Nadia Murad spoke at the 5th EU Day Against Impunity along with EU Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Croatian Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković, and Eurojust President Ladislav Hamran.
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Nadia Murad recently spoke to a group of students from Chapman University. The students are reading Nadia’s book and studying her organization Nadia’s Initiative as part of their coursework for their class "Transformational Leadership, Social Change and Positive Peace.”
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Germany is the first country to try ISIS perpetrators for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and human trafficking. An Iraqi ISIS fighter and his wife are both being tried for crimes committed against the Yazidis.
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“These hospitals are basically like health centres. They're small and do not have the capacity, [or] the equipment...they don’t have specialised doctors to deal with any sort of crisis, let alone COVID-19,” added Abid Shamdeen, Executive Director at Nadia’s Initiative.
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As we enter 2020, the year ahead is full of so much promise and opportunity to make the world a better, safer place. My hope for this year is that Nadia’s Initiative will continue to grow in our programs and our impact so that children and families have the opportunity to rebuild their lives…
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At the end of October 2019, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad launched a new initiative to assist the victims and survivors of sexual violence in conflict. The Global Survivors Fund is a mechanism that will provide survivors of conflict-related sexual violence with reparations and other forms of redress, especially where the perpetrators or states are unable or unwilling to do so.
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“Today, Nadia Murad is navigating without a chart, steering by the constellation of her people's dreams. An accidental leader facing questions she cannot answer. Will they have homes? Will there be justice?”
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Today, France is taking in 31 Yezidi women who were victims of Daesh [so-called ISIL], together with their children.
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Reuters and Nadia’s Initiative held a training course for a group of Yazidi journalists in Duhok, Iraq.The training course took place at the American University in Kurdistan from April 22nd- 25th.
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On Tuesday, April 23rd, Nadia Murad and the Nadia’s Initiative team attended the United Nations Security Council’s meeting on sexual violence in conflict. Nadia, her fellow Nobel Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege, and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney addressed the council prior to a vote on a German-drafted resolution to reduce sexual violence in conflict and end rape as a weapon of war.
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As a global advocate for survivors of sexual assault and genocide, as well as the co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, the Iraqi-born Murad was honored with this year’s International DVF Award.
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On 9 April 2019, the trial of Jennifer W, a 27-year-old German citizen, will begin in the Higher Regional Court of Munich.
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“The draft Law applies to Yazidi women who were kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS, and later escaped or were rescued from captivity. It aims to award financial and ethical compensation to these female survivors, to rebuild their lives and their towns, to facilitate their full rehabilitation, reintegration into society, to enable them to live in dignity and prosperity.”
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Human rights advocates met Tuesday in Paris to discuss potential strategies leading industrial nations could employ to reduce violence and discrimination against women.
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Both Iraq and its autonomous Kurdish region have formed new governments that seem ready to resume talks about the status of Iraq’s disputed territories.
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The Act is intended to provide the ultimate response to the genocidal atrocities committed by Daesh in Syria and Iraq, “to provide emergency relief to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Iraq and Syria, to provide accountability for perpetrators of these crimes and for other purposes.”
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