Nadia Murad, the Yezidi woman who escaped from captivity by Islamic State terrorists, has been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian lawmaker Audun Lysbakken, leader of Norway´s Socialist Left Party. Iraqi politicians had previously also expressed their support for Murad´s nomination.
“We want a peace prize that can awaken the world to the fight against sexual violence as a weapon of war”, Lysbakken told the Associated Press. Like thousands of other Yezidi women and children, Nadia was abducted and enslaved in August 2014 by the Islamic State in northern Iraq´s Shingal region. Three months passed until Nadia managed to escape her situation. Since then, she – together with activists of Yazda – has been advocating for the liberation of women and children who are still being held captive.
Her numerous visits with heads of state and other political representatives from the Arab world and Europe have again drawn the public´s attention to the Islamic State´s atrocities. During her speech at the UN Security Council, Murad called on the Member States to put an end to IS.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee annually receives more than 200 nominations, a decision on the winner will be made in December of each year. Pope Francis has been also nominated in addition to Murad.
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