NADIA MURAD

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 think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

The Yazidi people, they are very - they just want a simple life.

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.

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.

I was the youngest girl among my siblings, a simple village girl, who perhaps was luckier than other siblings as I have the chance to go to school.

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

We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.

What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

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

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

I want to learn English.

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

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.

I'll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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