Nadia Murad has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Dr. Denis Mukwege of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who I understand has been a relentless advocate for women.

Nadia was abducted in northern Iraq in August 2014, when ISIS took over her village. Her abductors gave the Yazidi people—a Kurdish and Arabic-speaking religious minority—two choices: Convert to Islam or die. Nadia refused to give in. She is Yazidi.

She was 21 years old, and was kidnapped along with 3,000 other Yazidi women and girls who were traded as sex slaves from one ISIS fighter to another. They forced her to pray, dress up, and apply makeup in preparation for her rapes, which were often committed by gangs.

Since she escaped she’s been a highly visible advocatefor her people and against the ISIS savagery.

https://twitter.com/nobelprize/statu...389531136?s=12

Here’s a fairly long (24:00) and disturbing BBC report on the Yazidi struggle:

https://youtu.be/xVzyAMxzLm8