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Nadia Murad Basee Taha or  Nadiye Murad  born in  1993 is a Yazidi human rights activist Nobel Peace Prize   nominee and since September 2016 the first Goodwill Ambassador  for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC). Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar  Iraq . Her family, of the Yazidi  ethno-religious minority, were farmers. Nadia's mission is sponsored and supported by Yazda: Global Yazidi Organization. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State in August 2014. On 1 June 2017, she returned to her home village of Kocho after three years. At the age of 19, Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in sinjar , northern Iraq  when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village killing 600 people – including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers – and taking the younger women into slavery. That year Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women taken prisoner by Islamic