United Nations, New York, USA, November 10 2017
Miroslav Lajcak President of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly During Nadia Murad, UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, details her fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of a panel discussion on trafficking in persons and the Lunching of her Book ” The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State” today at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
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United Nations, November 10 2017.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, Nadia Murad, today presented her book, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, at the United Nations.
Murad said “it is true that this is my story, the book has my picture on it, but it’s not only about me, this is about a cause. It is about a community that suffered. It is about all the women around the world that go through this, so when everyone that reads this book should keep that in mind.”
The Goodwill Ambassador spoke of the plight of the Yazidis, asking help for her people from the international community.
She said, “now that our homeland has been liberated from ISIS, 300,000 Yazidis in those IDP camps would like to return to their homes” but “everything was destroyed by ISIS.”
Murad said, “Yazidis do want to go back home and be able to take their land back again, because if we do not do that, Yazidis might disappear in the near future from that region.”
Also speaking at the event, activist Gloria Steinem said “it is crucial to have women at the table” during peace negotiations. Steinem said “often it is the women on either side of a conflict who can make peace when the men cannot.”
United Nations, New York, USA, November 10 2017
United Nations, New York, USA, November 10 2017 – Actress Eglantina Zingg During Nadia Murad, UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, details her fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of a panel discussion on trafficking in persons and the Lunching of her Book ” The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State” today at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire
Source: UNTV and EuropaNewswire.