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Nadia Murad

December 2023

  • Nadia Murad (R) with Amal Clooney.

    Nobel laureate sues French concrete maker Lafarge over alleged Islamic State support

    Nadia Murad and 430 US citizens of Yazidi background suing conglomerate over payments it made to terrorist group

February 2021

  • Yazidi women at a funeral of members of their community killed by Islamic State

    Rights and freedom
    Yazidis have been forgotten during Covid. They need justice, jobs and a return home

    Nadia Murad
    Survivors of Islamic State brutality are pushed further into the margins as the pandemic causes the world to turn inward

October 2019

  • Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege

    Nobel peace prize winners launch fund for wartime rape survivors

    Nobel laureates set $100m fundraising goal as they spearhead push to provide money, healthcare and education

July 2019

  • Awkward exchanges as Trump meets religious persecution survivors – video

    ‘Where is that exactly?’: Donald Trump's response to Rohingya refugee asking for US aid 

January 2019

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders.

    On Her Shoulders review – the heartbreaking life of Nadia Murad, survivor of genocide

    This arresting documentary critiques the limits to western compassion as it follows the Iraqi activist and Isis rape survivor on her lonely human rights pilgrimage

December 2018

  • Nadia Murad and Dr Denis Mukwege with their prizes in Oslo

    Indifference to sexual violence eats away at us all, say Nobel pair

  • Wim Wenders

    On my radar
    On my radar: Wim Wenders’s cultural highlights

  • Antonia Fraser

    Brief letters
    Meeting readers is a pleasure for writers

    Brief letters: Literary festivals | Pinter’s Betrayal | Nadia Murad | Supermarket deliveries | Palindromic paper
  • Nadia Murad

    I was an Isis sex slave. I tell my story because it is the best weapon I have

    Nadia Murad
    Nobel peace prize winner Nadia Murad describes her extraordinary journey from suffering at the hands of Islamic State to human rights campaigner
  • Nadia Murad and Dr Denis Mukwege

    After the Nobel peace prize, it’s time to focus on the victims of rape

    Winnie M Li
    Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege’s award should make us consider the impact on those who suffer sexual assaults, says author Winnie M Li
  • Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege

    Nobel peace prize goes to campaigners against sexual violence

    Gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad are jointly awarded
    • Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad - as it happened

    • Nadia Murad carries the fight for traumatised Yazidis

    • The Upside weekly report
      Heroes and victories: selflessness in Indonesia and noble Nobel winners

December 2016

  • An Islamic State rape victim Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha, center, speaks during her visit in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Nadia Murad Basee Taha is candidate for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Nadia Murad says UK could save lives of Yazidi women by admitting refugees

    Isis survivor who escaped sexual enslavement urges UK to follow Germany in offering refuge to Yazidi women and girls persecuted in Iraq

October 2016

  • Nadia Murad, left, and Lamiya Aji Bashar

    Yazidi women who escaped from Isis win EU human rights prize

  • The former IS prisoner Nadia Murad delivers her speech after winning the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

    Iraqi activist Nadia Murad wins human rights prize for Yazidi campaign

March 2016

  • Angela Merkel<br>German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a statement at the chancellery in Berlin, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, after the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced the European Union will be honored with the prize 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    Nobel peace prize: record nominations including Trump and Pope

    Nominees include US presidential hopeful, German chancellor and the Pope as more than 376 people and organisations are put forward for recognition
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