Nadia Murad and Amal Clooney

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, this week’s ‘At Your Service’ guest, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, was a young woman of 21, when at the height of the ISIS caliphate in Northern Iraq, ISIS surrounded her Yazidi community in the Sinjar region. Her brothers and mother were killed in a mass slaughter. Nadia and her sisters were abducted into sexual slavery. After she managed a remarkable and daring escape, she channeled her trauma to incredible effect, today advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. She tells her story on this week’s episode, joined by her legal counsel, barrister Amal Clooney.

Trigger warning: the material in this episode is powerful and inspiring, but it can also be disturbing and quite hard to hear. If you are sensitive to content about physical and sexual violence, or if you believe that you might find the discussion to be triggering, this episode may not be right for you.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to another episode of Do It Leaper at Your Service, a podcast series
0:19.0	that allows me to introduce our listeners to voices that I believe need to be heard.
0:23.8	I want to flag before we begin that the following material is powerful and inspiring, but
0:27.9	we can also be disturbing and quite hard to hear.
0:30.8	If you're sensitive to content about physical and sexual violence, or if you believe that
0:35.0	you might find the discussion to be triggering, you might want to go and listen to one of
0:38.9	our other episodes instead.
0:43.1	Today's very special guest is the campaigner Nadia Murad, someone I've got to know as
0:47.6	a friend over the past few months.
0:49.9	Her life story is perhaps the most astonishing I've ever heard.
0:53.2	What happened to Nadia, as you'll hear throughout this episode, is beyond the darkst
0:56.9	imaginations of most people.
1:03.2	In 2014, Nadia was a young woman of 21, when at the height of the ISIS Caliphate in Northern
1:08.7	Iraq, ISIS surrounded her Yazidi community in the Sinjar region.
1:13.5	Her brothers and mother were killed in a mass slaughter.
1:16.4	Nadia and her sisters were abducted into sexual slavery.
1:20.2	They were traded as a reward for ISIS fighters in a market where thousands of young Yazidi
1:24.4	women and girls were sold for as little as $20 on Facebook.
1:29.0	After suffering unimaginable horrors, Nadia managed a remarkable and daring escape.
1:34.2	Since that time, she's channeled her trauma to an incredible effect.
1:37.7	Today, she advocates for survivors of genocide and sexual violence and lobbies world leaders
1:42.6	and policymakers to prosecute ISIS perpetrators.
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