Human Rights Activist & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Founder and President of Nadia's Initiative
Nadia Murad: Biography at a Glance
- Nadia Murad is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leading human rights activist, dedicated to advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence.
- Her New York Times bestselling memoir, The Last Girl chronicles the harrowing genocide of the Yazidi people and Nadia’s journey from captivity to activism. Her latest book, I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism, details her life after escaping ISIS captivity, focusing on her journey as a global activist and a woman rebuilding her personal life
- Nadia has driven measurable global impact by advancing international legal frameworks and accountability mechanisms, including her work with Amal Clooney to pursue justice for ISIS crimes.
- As Founder and President of Nadia’s Initiative, she leads global efforts to rebuild communities and expand access to reparations for survivors worldwide.
- On stage, Nadia delivers powerful, firsthand insights that translate global challenges into actionable leadership lessons for organizations and leaders.
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Nadia Murad is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and one of the most influential forces reshaping how the world responds to conflict-related sexual violence. She has moved survivor-led justice and recovery from the margins to the center of global policy — changing the standard by which governments, international institutions, and legal systems are held accountable.
In 2014, Nadia was taken captive by the Islamic State (ISIS) during the genocide against the Yazidi community. After escaping, she chose to speak out — not to seek sympathy, but to force a global reckoning with the systems that allowed these crimes to happen and went unpunished.
What followed was not just advocacy — it was transformation. Nadia has driven fundamental shifts in international legal frameworks, pushed accountability mechanisms into existence, expanded access to reparations, and embedded survivor-centered approaches into institutional responses across multiple regions. Where there were gaps in the global system, she has worked to close them.
She has held heads of state, the United Nations Security Council, and governments to account — pushing them to act on justice for survivors and strengthen global responses to conflict-related sexual violence. Her leadership was instrumental in establishing the UN investigative mechanism UNITAD and securing the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2467 — milestones that have reshaped international law.
Nadia is the Founder and President of Nadia's Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis and driving global advocacy for survivors of sexual violence. She has championed reparations access for survivors worldwide.
In 2016, she became the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in ending the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Her work is grounded in an uncompromising principle: survivors must be at the center of the systems meant to protect them — not as symbols, but as leaders shaping law, policy, and recovery.
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Becoming a Voice for the Voiceless
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad shares her remarkable journey from a young Yazidi woman who survived ISIS captivity to a global advocate for human rights. In this compelling keynote, Nadia recounts how she transformed personal tragedy into a lifelong mission, working with leaders like Amal Clooney and founding Nadia’s Initiative to rebuild war-torn communities and support survivors of sexual violence.
Drawing from her upcoming memoir, Nadia shows how courage and resilience can empower anyone to make a difference. Her story is an inspiring call to action: a reminder that one voice, no matter how humble its beginnings, can change the world.
The Last Girl: A Story of Courage and Resilience
Nadia Murad was born in Kocho, a small farming village in northern Iraq. Her peaceful life was savagely interrupted when ISIS attacked her homeland with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis, an ancient ethnic and religious minority. Like many minority groups, the Yazidis have carried the weight of historical persecution. Women in particular have suffered greatly, as they have been and continue to be victims of sexual violence.
Now a bestselling author, a human rights activist, and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia’s life has become a dizzying array of exhausting undertakings — from testifying before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials. Nadia escaped the hands of ISIS to become a relentless beacon of hope for her people, even when at times she longs to lay aside this monumental burden and simply have an ordinary life.
With deep compassion and her calm and steely demeanor, Nadia Murad tells of her harrowing ordeal as a captive of the Islamic State, her ultimately inspiring story of escape, and her new life as the voice of her people. Nadia delivers an inspiring call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country and a family torn apart by war.
Nadia’s Initiative: Rebuilding Communities, Protecting Survivors
A member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, Nadia Murad was the victim of an attack on her home village by the Islamic State (ISIS). Several hundred people were massacred and hundreds of girls and young women, including Nadia, were abducted and held as sex slaves. Nadia was repeatedly subjected to rape and other abuses, but after three harrowing months, she managed to escape.
As a witness to the Islamic State’s brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, and a Yazidi, Nadia forced the world to pay attention to genocide and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. She became a Human Rights Activist, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and a tireless voice calling to make “never again” a reality.
In this onstage conversation, Nadia raises awareness about the ongoing plight of the Yazidi people and shares her efforts to persuade governments and other organizations to financially support the rebuilding of the Yazidi homeland. In conjunction with her nonprofit, Nadia’s Initiative, Nadia outlines the programs to promote health, relocation, justice, and reparations for the thousands of displaced survivors. Nadia will deliver an impassioned speech calling for a worldwide, concerted humanitarian effort —overcoming all political and cultural division — to create a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities.
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