Donation presented to human rights activist Nadia Murad
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/07/04
By: Micah McCartney, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Nadia Murad and Representative Stanley Kao (By Central News Agency)
Taiwan's top representative to the U.S., Stanley Kao (高碩泰), presented the donation on Friday (June 28). Nadia Murad accepted it on behalf of the non-profit at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., the Central News Agency (CNA) reported.
Murad is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and human rights activist who was kidnapped from her Yazidi village in Sinjar, Iraq, by ISIS in 2014. She was held for three months, during which time she was raped and beaten, before managing to escape.
Murad praised the Taiwan government during her keynote speech at the institute. She also presented Kao with a letter of appreciation, expressing her thanks for his country's support.
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