Ten years since Isis raided her village, Nadia Murad – Nobel-winning human rights activist – talks to Sirin Kale about opening a new centre for women in Iraq, working with Amal Clooney and her blueprint for hope in the wake of disaster.
As a teenager living in Kocho, a village in Sinjar, Iraq, Nadia Murad was a total beauty obsessive. When she was 13, she set up a makeshift salon in a sheep house on the family farm, where she lived with her 10 siblings and mother, and would invite friends and neighbours and do their hair and make-up. “So many times,” she recalls, smiling, “I was sent back from school because I was wearing lipstick.” But in 2014 her world was obliterated.
” As part of her work with Nadia’s Initiative, the non-profit she founded to end the abuse of women and girls during war, as well as rebuild the community in Sinjar, Murad has met sexual violence survivors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Ukraine. “They all want to have their day in court,” says Murad. “For us, it’s the only form of justice that we can move forwards, knowing they will never be able to harm any other women.
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