In 2016, she was appointed the United Nations’ first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. Murad hoped that doing so would result in her abusers being brought to justice for their crimes. There she chose to tell the international community what she had suffered. Nadia was raped and threatened with execution unless she converted to the IS version of Islam.Īfter some months, Nadia Murad managed to escape, and in 2015 arrived in Germany. Twenty-one-year-old Nadia Murad and other young women were abducted and held as sex slaves. The IS claimed that the Yazidi were devil worshippers who had to be exterminated. In 2014, militants from the Islamic State (IS) conquered Kojo and massacred several hundred men and elderly women.
Yazidis are an ancient ethno-religious group. Victim of sexual violenceNadia Murad grew up in the village of Kojo in northern Iraq. Despite these threats, Mukwege has continued to criticise the DRC’s government and the international community for not doing enough to prosecute the perpetrators of such war crimes. In 2012, he and his family survived an assassination attempt, and his life has been threatened by groups bent on preventing him from publicly condemning the atrocities.
Typically, he was in the operating room when he was told that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He has carried out countless operations, working long days of up to 18 hours. Mukwege has become one of the world’s leading experts on the treatment of internal injuries suffered by women subjected to gang rape. Both government forces and rebel groups have used the rape of women as a weapon to humiliate and weaken their opponents. The fighting largely concerns control of the DRC’S important raw materials. Many millions of people have been killed, abused and forced to flee in the civil wars that have ravaged the DRC since the 1990s. In 2008, he established Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he and his staff have treated the injuries of thousands of women victims of sexual violence. He trained as a doctor and became a gynecologist after studying in France.
Helping to combat sexual violenceDenis Mukwege grew up in the town of Bukavu in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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