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Nadia Murad Basee Taha called for justice for the victims of the Islamic State group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognized as a genocide. (AFP/Mark Wilson)

October 27th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Yazidi survivors of Daesh sexual slavery win EU human rights prize

The two women, who now live in Germany, campaign for the thousands of Yezidi girls and women forced into sex slavery by the extremist group.

Raif Badawi is currently imprisoned for insulting clerics in Saudi Arabia. (AFP/File)

October 29th, 2015 - 12:11 GMT

Jailed Saudi blogger wins international human rights prize

Photo taken on September 3, 2013 shows Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls education who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, opening the Library of Birmingham. (Image credit: AFP)

October 10th, 2013 - 05:39 GMT

Malala wins EU prize for freedom of thought

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights (Photo: dfuse.in)

December 18th, 2012 - 11:05 GMT

Iran slams EU for awarding human rights prize to dissident filmmaker