United Nations: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad has stated that the Covid-19 Pandemic has led to violence and trafficking against women. Have increased. It has also raised concerns about women’s health and safety.
The 27-year-old human rights activist, who was forcibly sexually enslaved by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, said governments had imposed curfews, lockdowns and travel bans to prevent the virus from spreading. Which has hurt women all over the world. “Human trafficking, instead of reducing violence against women, has increased the risk of vandalism and exploitation against women during the epidemic,” she said. “After the onset of the epidemic, there were reports of increasing violence against women from many countries,” she said.
Murad said concerns over women’s health and safety have also increased. Even access to health facilities for many women was disrupted. Murad, from Iraq’s minority Yazidi community, is among thousands of women and girls who were forcibly enslaved by Islamic State militants in 2014.
His mother and six brothers were killed by IS fighters. After escaping from the clutches of IS, she started working for women and girls and became a human rights activist. She took refuge in Germany and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Murad addressed a UN meeting on the topic of the fight against sexual violence against women and human trafficking in Lockdown during the Covid-19 epidemic via video conference on Monday.
