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Nadia Murad

1993 - Today

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Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq. Much of her community was massacred. After losing most of her family, Murad was held as an Islamic State sex slave for three months, alongside thousands of other Yazidi women and girls. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadia Murad is the 532nd most popular social activist (down from 506th in 2019). (down from 4,012th in 2019)

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Among social activists, Nadia Murad ranks 532 out of 840. Before her are Mumia Abu-Jamal, Annie Kenney, Charu Majumdar, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, Tatyana Baramzina, and Shivakumara Swami. After her are Abraham Flexner, Ted Grant, Ivan Betskoy, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Mykola Rudenko, and Agnès Callamard.

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Among people born in 1993, Nadia Murad ranks 40. Before her are Ben Davies, Harry Maguire, Michy Batshuayi, Jesé, Alphonse Areola, and Johannes Thingnes Bø. After her are Niclas Füllkrug, Paco Alcácer, Wataru Endo, Thorgan Hazard, Andrea Belotti, and Park Yeon-mi.

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