Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad is building a hospital for survivors of sexual violence

SINJAR: Murad is a survivor of sexual violence at the hands of Islamic States militants herself.

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Nadia Murad, the Yazidi human rights activist who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has announced that she will use her $1 million award to build a hospital for victims of sexual abuse in her hometown of Sinjar, Iraq, Reuters reports.

“With the money I got from the Nobel Peace Prize, I will build a hospital in Sinjar to treat ill people, mainly widows and women who were exposed to sexual abuses by Islamic State militants,” she told a large crowd in Sinjar on Dec. 14, Reuters reports.

Courtesy: (Globalcitizen.org)