From ISIS sex slave to UN Goodwill Ambassador: The incredible story of a rape survivor

She was just a 19-year-old student when the ISIS terrorists captured her village (Kocho) in Iraq in 2014. Member of the non-Muslim Yazidi community meant bad fortune in store. Kept in captivity for over three months, she witnessed her brother and father being killed in front of her eyes. Severelly beaten up and raped several times, she endured the worst kind of torture. One time, when she tried to escape, she was gangraped by six men till she lost consciousness.

This is the story of Nadia Murad - a survivor of the ISIS atrocities.

Lighting hope for millions, Nadia was selected to be one of the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for human trafficking on 16 September, 2016. The formal UN announcement states, "During her Ambassadorship, Nadia will focus on advocacy initiatives and raise awareness around the plight of the countless victims of trafficking".

She opened up about her own dark experience in the past while addressing the United Nations Security Council in 2015 - which painted a gory picture of the ISIS-held northern Iraq.

She recalled her being taken as a sex slave by the ISIS. What followed was, as she puts it, a kind of torture that 'a mind could not imagine'. The 'slaves' were made to pray before being raped and were subject to regular beating up.

Nadia Murad was finally able to escape to seek asylum in Germany where she also received medical aid.

On her personal website, Nadia writes, she is "dedicated to helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities and human trafficking, heal and re-build their lives and communities" and her new position with the United Nations will help her with her mission.

The young Iraqi has already met with Amal Clooney, who will represent her and several other women tortured at the hands of ISIS, as their case is taken to the International Criminal Court.

In 2016, the Iraqi government nominated her for 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. On 15 September, 2016, she was nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

- With agency inputs