Clooney gave a speech at the United Nations in New York City on Friday, September 16, detailing Murad’s ISIS captivity in hopes that the U.N. Security Council will open an investigation into the genocide of Murad’s people, Iraq’s Yazidi community.
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Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer and the wife of actor George Clooney, opened up about taking on an ISIS human trafficking survivor as a client in a recent interview that aired on NBC’s “Today” show Monday morning.
Amal Clooney is representing Murad, now 23, in her worldwide legal battle, and the attorney admits she discussed the potential safety risks of the case with her actor husband before taking the job.
“He met Nadia too, and I think he was moved for the same reasons”, Amal shares.
But while she appears to be having a great time, people jumped on her post to slam her for hanging out with celebrities while she is on a work trip and accuse her of not caring about the refugees trying to get to Australia.
She has since launched “Nadia’s Initiative” which will “focus on advocating for the countless victims of mass atrocities as well as developing and supporting field programs in the areas of healthcare, psychosocial support and education for women and children”.
“I can’t imagine anything worse being done by one human to another”, she said with tears in her eyes.
Amal’s client Nadia was taken by IS as a sex slave when she was 19 years old and said she was raped by multiple men until she “fell unconscious”.
And Amal makes it clear this is no ordinary human rights case, adding, “You can’t kill an idea that way”.
“One way to take action is to expose their brutality and their corruption”. “I’m ashamed as a human being that we ignore their cries for help”.
Amal is making the legal case to world leaders and diplomats for taking ISIS to court for genocide.
Islamic State rape victim Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha speaks during her visit in a makeshift refugee camp in Greece.
Journalist Cynthia McFadden pointed to what she says is an argument of many: “ISIS needs to be bombed out of existence”.
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“This is no joke; this is ISIS”, she said. “I met her, and I just thought, ‘I can’t walk away”. “He understood that I have spent my career working on global justice and this is a clear case of genocide and genocide that’s gone completely unaddressed and ignored”.
