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Yezidi's Nadia Murad participates to the Lower Saxony Landtag in Hanover, northern Germany on May 31, 2016. Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq's northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to IS-controlled Mosul, where she endured months of sexual abuse by Islamic State militants before escaping. / AFP / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images)

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“We had no ambition for more land or power, And nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.” Nadia Murad Peace Nobel Laureate

Yezidi's Nadia Murad participates to the Lower Saxony Landtag in Hanover, northern Germany on May 31, 2016. Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq's northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to IS-controlled Mosul, where she endured months of sexual abuse by Islamic State militants before escaping. / AFP / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Born in 1993 to a family of farmers from the ethno-religious minority Yazidi in the village of Kojo in Sinjar District, Iraq, Nadia was captured in August 2014, at the…

Yezidi's Nadia Murad participates to the Lower Saxony Landtag in Hanover, northern Germany on May 31, 2016. Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq's northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to IS-controlled Mosul, where she endured months of sexual abuse by Islamic State militants before escaping. / AFP / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images)