11/10/2016 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 10 October, the young Yazidi woman, Nadia Murad, received the Vaclav Havel Prize in Strasbourg from the Council of Europe. She was captured by Daesh in Northern Iraq in 2014, when she was aged 21, but managed to escape and find refuge in Germany. She has since become a UN ambassador and now fights for the dignity of survivors from the trade in human trafficking. In her address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, she stated: "So far, no one has been brought to account for the genocide of the Yezidi people". "There has been no attempt to collect evidence. No regional, national or international institution appears to want to act”, she added. She concluded by calling on the MEPs present to send a message to their respective national parliaments. Murad was on the shortlist for the prize together with the Institut international des droits de l’homme/Fondation René Cassin in Strasbourg and the Serbian journalist, Gordana Igric. The former Daesh hostage was also nominated for the Sakharov Prize for the freedom of thought, which will be awarded at the European Parliament on 27 October. (VL)