SHAFAQNA– Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi woman who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said she plans to build a hospital with prize money in her hometown in northern Iraq for victims of sexual abuse.
Murad, The Yazidi survivor was speaking to a crowd of hundreds in Sinjar, her hometown in northern Iraq on December 14.
“With the money I got from the Nobel Peace prize, I will build a hospital in Sinjar to treat ill people, mainly widows and women who were exposed to sexual abuses by Islamic State militants,” she told the crowd and gathered journalists, straitstimes reported.
The Yazidi area in Sinjar had previously been home to about 400,000 people, mostly Yazidis and Arab Sunnis.
She thanked the Iraqi and Kurdistan governments for agreeing to her plan and said she would be contacting humanitarian organisations “soon” to start construction.
Murad received the $1 million prize for the Nobel prize with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict, rferl told.
To note, Nadia Murad was one of about 7,000 women and girls captured in northwest Iraq in August 2014 and held by Islamic State in Mosul, where she was tortured and raped. She escaped after three months and reached Germany, from where she campaigned extensively to appeal for support for the Yazidi community, panorama mentioned.
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