We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.
The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.
Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.
I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.
Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.
All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.
Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.
I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.
There were 2 million civilians in Mosul and 2,000 kidnapped girls there. There were thousands of families in Mosul that could have helped other girls, but they didn't. Women had to wear veils in Mosul. It would have been easy to smuggle Yazidi women out.
It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.
We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.
Whenever I get a call from the camps in Iraq that someone has been liberated, that so-and-so's daughter was liberated, I feel overwhelming joy again.
The terrorists didn't think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered.
I didn't want people to know me as a victim.
I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.
I want to learn English.
What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'
