AFP | UNITED NATIONS :
A young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of Islamic State fighters has become a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha+ , a 23-year-old Yazidi woman on Friday called for justice for the victims of the jihadist group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognised as a genocide.
Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to IS-controlled Mosul, where she was gang-raped+ , and bought and sold many times.
“I was used in the way that they wanted to use me. I was not alone,” Murad said during a ceremony held at UN headquarters.
A young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of Islamic State fighters has become a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha+ , a 23-year-old Yazidi woman on Friday called for justice for the victims of the jihadist group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognised as a genocide.
Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to IS-controlled Mosul, where she was gang-raped+ , and bought and sold many times.
“I was used in the way that they wanted to use me. I was not alone,” Murad said during a ceremony held at UN headquarters.
