The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

In 2014, ISIS swept through Iraq, bringing death and destruction to the Yazidis people, a Kurdish religious minority. In a matter of days, more than 10,000 people were killed while countless women were forced into sex slavery and conversion to Islam. Murad, a human rights activist and Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations, tells her story to help bring those responsible to justice, with the hope that education, compassion, and activism make her the last woman to have this experience. She was only 21 when Islamic State militants executed the men and older women in her village, taking her and others to Mosul to become sabaya or slaves. Continually beaten and raped, she ran at her first opportunity and by chance found the home of a Sunni Muslim family who risked their lives to smuggle her to safety.