Nareen Shammo

In 2014 Nareen Shammo quit her TV job when she learnt that Islamic State was systematically kidnapping and enslaving women and girls in Iraq and became active in the liberation of captive Yazidi girls and women and in denouncing the genocide of Yazidis.^[2] She has worked with the Initiative for Ezidis around the world and the Yazda Center.^[3] She has been chosen in 2015 between 100 inspiring women in the world by BBC,^[4] and 2016 by Salt and Diageo's.^[5]

She was the first to speak out about the abuses against Yazidi women before the Kurdistan Region and call for their intervention.^[6]

In 2015, Nareen Shammo was awarded the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize (Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis) of the German Die Linke party, for her outstanding work.^{[7][8][9][10][3]}