Nadia Murad Basee Taha is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. She was born on March 10, 1993, in Kocho, Iraq, and is currently alive.

Murad was a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi and first Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Her work has brought global attention to the genocide against the Yazidi ethno-religious minority in Iraq.

In August 2014, her peaceful life was brutally disrupted when Islamic State (ISIS) fighters attacked her hometown, Kocho, as part of a campaign to ethnically cleanse the Yazidis. Her mother and six of her brothers were executed, and she was abducted along with thousands of other women and girls. She was held as a slave in Mosul, where she was subjected to repeated sexual violence and abuse before successfully escaping after three months.

After receiving help in Germany, Murad refused to accept the silence often expected of survivors. She courageously chose to speak out to the world about the horrors inflicted upon the Yazidi women and girls. She was named the first UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking in 2016. Murad founded Nadia's Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis and advocating for survivors of sexual violence globally. Her advocacy focuses on seeking justice for ISIS atrocities and raising awareness of the systemic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.