Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad

nadia muradHuman rights activist Nadia Murad, a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, will be the featured speaker at the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics’ Clough Colloquium on February 22 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Her memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, is a harrowing account of a 2014 ISIS attack on her village in Iraq. Her mother and six brothers were killed and she was kidnapped and taken into sexual slavery—one of thousands of Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by the Islamic State. Since escaping captivity, Murad has become a leading advocate for ending sexual violence as a weapon of war. She became the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. She is the founder and president of Nadia’s Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis and advocating for survivors of sexual violence. Her BC talk will begin at 4 p.m. Doors open at 3:30.

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