On June 19th, International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Nadia's Initiative team participated in a NATO Digital Dialogue on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
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On July 15, Nadia Murad spoke at the Girl Up Campaign’s #GirlsLead20 Leadership Summit. Campaign speakers included Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, among others.
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Today, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, sees the launch of the draft Global Code of Conduct for the Documentation and Investigation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. It is named the “Murad Code,” after Nadia Murad, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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Nadia Murad raised spoke about protecting and supporting survivors at a UN virtual briefing on gender-based violence during COVID-19. and spoke of concrete steps taken by Nadia's Initiative towards accountability and prevention.
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Nadia Murad spoke at the 5th EU Day Against Impunity along with EU Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Croatian Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković, and Eurojust President Ladislav Hamran.
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Nadia Murad recently spoke to a group of students from Chapman University. The students are reading Nadia’s book and studying her organization Nadia’s Initiative as part of their coursework for their class "Transformational Leadership, Social Change and Positive Peace.”
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Nadia Murad’s Thomson Reuters Foundation Op-Ed: Women are often on the frontlines of those most vulnerable during crisis situations. They are targets of gender-based violence (GBV) in war, conflict, economic crises, disasters, pandemics, and in their everyday environments.
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Germany is the first country to try ISIS perpetrators for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and human trafficking. An Iraqi ISIS fighter and his wife are both being tried for crimes committed against the Yazidis.
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“These hospitals are basically like health centres. They're small and do not have the capacity, [or] the equipment...they don’t have specialised doctors to deal with any sort of crisis, let alone COVID-19,” added Abid Shamdeen, Executive Director at Nadia’s Initiative.
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Nadia's Initiative has signed onto a joint NGO letter calling on Iraqi authorities and the United Nations to implement urgent measures aimed at preventing a humanitarian and security disaster in Sinjar, Tel Afar, and the Nineveh Plain amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Step it up G7: An extraordinary time requires extraordinary solidarity. Desperate times require bold and determined leadership. The COVID-19 virus represents a common challenge to the whole world and, like never before, reminds us of our interdependence.
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“We, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocates and Alumni, are greatly concerned by the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) and the impacts it is having in every corner of the globe. We stand in solidarity with those affected…”
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The spread of COVID-19 is an opportunity for the global community to prioritize the health and well-being of every human being. Governments are acting to control the pandemic and adopt measures to protect their citizens. These may be trying times, but they are also a chance for mankind to shift priorities.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner recognized for her advocacy of survivors of Yazidi genocide and worldwide victims of violence
Nadia Murad the human rights advocate show exposed ISIS’s ethnic cleansing of the Yazidi minority community in Iraq over five years ago said Saturday that justice can be a tool for accountability and deterrence in genocidal campaigns, but it must have a vision in order to be effective.
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Historic alliance of 2,020 campaigners unite to issue an open letter demanding world leaders tackle the emergency facing people and planet Signatories include world-leading activists and campaigners from Dr. Jane Goodall DBE and Malala Yousafzai, to leaders of movements including Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter; Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, Bring Back Our Girls; Tarana Burke…
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The United Nations in Geneva hosted its first Young Activists Summit. The summit's theme was WOMEN AND GIRLS DRIVING PROGRESS, and Nadia spoke among a group of five other young female activists advocating for a better world - fighting to end child marriage, reduce plastic consumption, protect indigenous rights and land, and defend human rights.
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On this Human Rights Day, I'd like to shed light on sexual violence—an important issue on which I have been working to raise awareness for several years. Five years ago, my life drastically changed when ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) invaded my hometown of Sinjar, Iraq, with the intention of committing genocide against the Yazidi people.
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At the end of October 2019, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad launched a new initiative to assist the victims and survivors of sexual violence in conflict. The Global Survivors Fund is a mechanism that will provide survivors of conflict-related sexual violence with reparations and other forms of redress, especially where the perpetrators or states are unable or unwilling to do so.
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“Today, Nadia Murad is navigating without a chart, steering by the constellation of her people's dreams. An accidental leader facing questions she cannot answer. Will they have homes? Will there be justice?”
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On September 24, Nadia Murad participated in the panel of the G7 Advisory Council for Equality between Women and Men at the French Consulate General in New York
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