Vaclav Havel Award for Human Rights has been awarded to Yazidi activist Nadia Murad.
The award was handed over by PACE President Pedro Agramunt during the first day of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly, the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports from Strasbourg.
.A young, brave Yazidi woman, who managed to flee ISIS in northern Iraq. Today a human rights activist, she brings the plight of the Yazidi community, in particular the forced sexual enslavement and human trafficking of women and children captured by ISIS, to the forefront of international attention.
The shortlisted nominees for this year’s prize were Gordana Igric, International Institute of Human Rights – René Cassin Foundation and Nadia Murad.
The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by PACE, in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, and consists of a sum of 60,000 euros, a trophy and a diploma.