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Yazidi genocide survivor and UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking Nadia Murad, said, “ignoring the suffering of the Yazidis is unacceptable. The international community must not defer meaningful actions any longer.” UNIFEED

UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten said the past ten years have seen more concerted action to combat this scourge than what we have seen in the rest of human history combined. UNIFEED

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution which encourages a survivor-centred approach to preventing and responding to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situation. UNIFEED

The United Nations honoured three individuals and one organization for their outstanding contributions in the field of human rights granting them the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize, which has been given every five years since 1968. UNIFEED

Following a moment of silence for victims of genocide, Secretary-General António Guterres said “seventy years after the Genocide Convention was adopted, people are still being killed, raped, their homes torched, their lands confiscated, just because of who they are.” UNIFEED

UN chief Antonio Guterres congratulated Nadia Murad and Doctor Denis Mukwege on being awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize adding that the award also belonged to the “countless” victims of sexual violence around the world “who have too often been stigmatized, hidden and forgotten.” UNIFEED

Nadia Murad, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking and Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has treated tens of thousands of women victims of rape and sexual violence at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winners. UNIFEED / FILE

The decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two leading campaigners against sexual violence in war will help end its use as a weapon of conflict, the United Nations said on Friday. UNTV CH

Presenting her new book, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, Nadia 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.” UNIFEED

Yazidi genocide survivor Nadia Murad asked “what more” the international community needs to hear “before you will act” and bring ISIL to justice for its crimes. She called on the Iraqi Government and the United Nations to establish an investigation and give all the victims of ISIL the justice they deserve. UNIFEED