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Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar Wins Sakharov Prize

Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar, who escaped sexual enslavement by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq, have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize.
●    The announcement of the year's joint laureates was made following a decision by European Parliament on 27 October 2016.
●    The Sakharov award ceremony will be held in Strasbourg on 14 December.
●    Basee and Bashar were among thousands of Yazidi girls and women abducted by ISIS militants and forced into sexual slavery in 2014. 
●    But, both survived and now campaign for the Yazidi community.
●    Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar are advocates for the Yazidi community and for women surviving sexual enslavement by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. 
●    They are both from Kocho, one of the villages near Sinjar, Iraq, which was taken over by ISIS in 2014. 

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