Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 21-year-old Iraqi woman of the Yazidi faith who was abducted and held by the Islamic State for three months, meets with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Athens, Greece, December 30, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A young Yazidi woman held captive and raped by Islamic State militants appealed to world leaders at the United Nations on Monday to end war and improve the lives of millions of refugees as they agreed a voluntary framework to respond to the global crisis.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 23, recently appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told leaders at a U.N. refugee and migrants summit ahead of the 71st General Assembly: "You decide whether it is to be war or peace."
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