Nadia Murad

I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.

ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.

Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons.

I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'

Whenever I get a call from the camps in Iraq that someone has been liberated, that so-and-so's daughter was liberated, I feel overwhelming joy again.

Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.

I am afraid that Yazidis and Yazidism will vanish and will not be able to resist the extremists.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.

My survival case comes with a purpose and obligation, which is why I have launched Nadia's Initiative, an organisation dedicated to helping women and children who have been victimised... My initiative is trying to get support needed to get Sinjar rebuilt.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.

There should be no place for terrorism and extremist ideas in post-ISIS Iraq. We must join forces in building our country; we must contribute together to achieve security, stability, and prosperity for the benefit of all Iraqis.

Justice is the only way to achieve peace and co-existence among the various components of Iraq.

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.

There were 2 million civilians in Mosul and 2,000 kidnapped girls there. There were thousands of families in Mosul that could have helped other girls, but they didn't. Women had to wear veils in Mosul. It would have been easy to smuggle Yazidi women out.

The hope of ISIS was to break the Yazidi community. But for survivors especially, going back to their lives and getting married and making a life and working, it's basically making sure ISIS did not succeed.

It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.

I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.

When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.