how won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 becoming the first Iraqi to be awarded a nobel
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Nadia Murad, 25, has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 and she hails as a human rights activist from the persecuted Yazidi religious minority in Iraq. She has shared her award with Dr. Denis Mukwege, 63, a Congolese surgeon.
She also is actually an ISIS survivor and a rape victim who refused to remain silent. In 2016, she received the "Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize" and the "Sakharov Prize for freedom for Thought" jointly with Lamiya Ali Bashar.
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Q. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018, becoming the first Iraqi to be awarded a Nobel?
Answer : Nadia Murad Basee Taha
Extra information :
▪ Nadia Murad, byname Nadia Murad Basee Taha was born in 1993 in a poor family in the village of Kojo in Sinjar in northern Iraq, belonging to the Yazidi Community.
▪ In 2018, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".
▪ She is the first Iraqi to be honoured a Nobel Peace Prize.
▪ She is a human rights activist.
▪She is the United Nations' first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking in 2016.
▪ She is also a survivor herself, who was taken captive ISIS militants in 2014. She is one of the rape victim who came out in the public about the abuse she and other women underwent.
▪ In 2016, she is also awarded with the "Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize" and the "Sakharov Prize for freedom for Thought" jointly with Lamiya Ali Bashar.