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Nadia Murad ISIS
Sex Slavery, Is Now A UN Goodwill Ambassador
Nadia Murad, a survivor of the ISIS atrocities, was selected to be
the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for human trafficking on September 16,
2016. The formal UN announcement states, "During her Ambassadorship, Nadia
will focus on advocacy initiatives and raise awareness around the plight of the
countless victims of trafficking".
Nadia was just 19 years old when
ISIS terrorists took over her village in Iraq in 2014. Being from the
non-Muslim Yazidi community meant that she had to go through the worst kind of
torture. She had witnessed her brother and father being killed in front of her
eyes. During her three months of captivity, she was beaten up and raped several
times. The time that she tried to escape, she was gangraped by six men till she
lost consciousness.
She opened up about her own dark
experience while addressing the United Nations Security Council in 2015 which
paints a gory picture of the ISIS-held northern Iraq. She was taken as a sex
slave by the ISIS and what followed was, as she puts it, a kind of torture that
'a mind could not imagine'. The 'slaves' were made to pray before being raped
and were subject to regular beating up.
Nadia Murad was finally able to
escape to seek asylum in Germany where she also received medical aid.
The young Iraqi has already met
with Amal Clooney, who will represent her and several other women tortured at
the hands of ISIS, as their case is taken to the International Criminal Court.
According to Nadia's personal website,
she is "dedicated to helping women and children victimized by genocide,
mass atrocities and human trafficking, heal and re-build their lives and
communities" and her new position with the United Nations will help her
with her mission.
