Iran Press/Middle East: In her acceptance speech at a ceremony in Oslo on Monday, Nadia Murad said: "The protection of the Yazidis and all vulnerable communities around the world is the responsibility of the international community."
The 25-year-old shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, who has spent more than two decades treating appalling injuries inflicted on women in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east.
Older women and men faced summary execution during the ISIS assault on Iraq, which the United Nations has described as a possible genocide.
Captured in 2014, she suffered forced marriage, beatings and rape at the hands of ISIS Terrorists (also known as Daesh Terrorists) before she was able to escape.
In her Nobel acceptance address on Monday, Murad said that thousands of women and girls from her community had been kidnapped, raped and traded "in the 21st century, in the age of globalisation and human rights".
The fate of some 3,000 Iraqi women and girls is still unknown. 211 /103
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