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A woman who escaped ISIS sex slavery has become the first survivor of captivity with the group to be appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, The Independent reported. 

Nadia Murad, who has also been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, will act as an ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking for the UN’s Drugs and Crime body.

The 23-year-old, who is Yazidi, was captured by the jihadi group in 2014 and subjected to sexual and physical abuse after being sold as a slave several times but eventually managed to flee.

Earlier Nadia Murad attended the Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan. Nadia Murad was among more than 5,000 Yazidi women taken captive when ISIS swept through the group’s territories in northern Iraq.  She shared with Panorama.am the hardships suffered while leaving Mosul, a major concentration point of Daesh terrorists.

“I was in Mosul and was looking for opportunities to leave the town. I knew there were no chances to survive. The whole city was controlled by the terrorists. I found a house where I took Islamic clothes, disguised my face and escaped. I got assistance from some people and had the luck to cross the border. Later I was transferred to a Yezidi refugee cam and joined my brother, with a follow-up trip to Germany,” Murad said.