Nadia Murad
- January 5, 2024
- Activist
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Nadia Murad Biography
| Name | Nadia Murad |
| Birthday | Jan 14 |
| Birth Year | 1993 |
| Birth Country | Iraq |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Parents | Murad Basee Taha |
Nadia Murad is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on January 14, 1993 in Iraq. Iraqi human rights activist, who was kidnapped in 2014 by the Islamic State. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in ending the use of sexual violence to war.
Amal Clooney represented her at the United Nations speaking on behalf of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. represented the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
In 2019, Murad addressed the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom where she spoke about her story and the ongoing challenges faced by Yazidis nearly five years after the 3 August 2014 attacks and laid out a “five-point plan of action” to address the challenges they face in Iraq. Murad was included among a delegation of survivors of religious persecution from around the world whose stories were highlighted at the summit. As part of the delegation, on 17 July 2019, Murad met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with whom she tried to share her personal story of having lost her family members, including her mother and six brothers, and pleaded with him to do something.
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq. Her family, of the Yazidi minority, were farmers. 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 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. She was captured on 15 August 2014. She was held as a slave in the city of Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped. She successfully escaped after her captor left the house unlocked. Murad was taken in by a neighbouring 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 Duhok, northern Iraq. She was out of ISIS territory in early September or in November 2014.
She was born in Kocho, Iraq to a Yazidi ethnoreligious family.
Nadia Murad Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Activist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Nadia Murad is one of the richest Activist from Iraq. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nadia Murad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After being kidnapped in Mosul and being held as a slave, she managed to escape after her captors forgot to lock the house. After being kidnapped and held as a slave in Mosul, she escaped to Duhok to find refuge before giving her first testimony in February 2015. Nadia’s Initiative was an organization that assists women and children.
Her achievements include being the first Yazidi and Iraqi Yazidi to receive the Nobel prize.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه ; born 1993) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.
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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.
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Nadia Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iraq. Nadia Murad celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.
In August 2018, Murad became engaged to fellow Yazidi human rights activist Abid Shamdeen.