IS sex slave named UN goodwill ambassador

A young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of IS fighters has become a UN goodwill ambassador for dignity of survivors of human trafficking

The 23-year-old Nadia Murad Basee Taha. Pic/AFP

United Nations: A young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of IS fighters has become a UN goodwill ambassador for dignity of survivors of human trafficking.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman, on Friday called for justice for the victims of the jihadist group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognised as a genocide.

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 was gang-raped, and bought and sold many times.

She will focus on raising awareness of the plight of victims of human trafficking.

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