Question

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad belongs to which country?
1. Syria
2. Palestine
3. Iraq
4. Jordan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Iraq

The correct answer is Iraq.

• The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad belongs to Iraq.
• Prize motivation:
  • "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

• Nadia Murad:
  • When she was 19 years old, the Islamic State attacked her village and killed 600 Yazidi men, including several of her family members.
  • Murad and other young women were taken prisoner and subjected to beatings and rape.
  • She managed to escape, however, and make her way to a refugee camp.
  • She now works to help women and children who are victims of abuse and human trafficking.
• The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Abiy Ahmed Ali, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.
• The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world – often in extremely dangerous and hard-to-access conditions – was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget).
• According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who in the preceding year "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".