Former Yazidi Sex Slave Uses International Stage to Spotlight Trafficking

A Yazidi woman imprisoned and raped by Islamic State fighters said she had no idea about the scourge of human trafficking until she found herself enslaved with thousands of other women. Nadia Murad Basee Taha has become the face of Yazidi women captured in northwestern Iraq in the summer of 2014 and used as sex slaves by the Islamic militants. Since escaping her captors in November 2014, she has become an advocate for the Yazidis, and for refugee and women's rights in general, as...

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