Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize

“I was not raised to give speeches,” she said. “Neither was I born to meet world leaders, nor to represent a cause so heavy, so difficult,” she said.

But she would continue “so that one day we can look our abusers in the eye in a court in The Hague and tell the world what they have done to us,” she said. “So my community can heal. So I can be the last girl to come before you.”

Read more in the New York Times. 

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