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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center">Alice & Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance<o:p></o:p></h1>
<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Nadia Murad, Human Rights Activist and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center">Human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Her
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New York Times</span></em> bestselling memoir,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State,</span></em> is a harrowing account of the genocide against the Yazidi people of Iraq and Nadia’s imprisonment by the so-called Islamic
State (ISIS).<br>
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In 2016, Nadia became the first <a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2016/September/human-trafficking-survivor-nadia-murad-named-unodc-goodwill-ambassador.html">
United Nations</a> Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. That year, she was also awarded the
<a href="https://pace.coe.int/en/news/6344">Council of Europe Václav Havel Award</a> for Human Rights and
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-prize-idUSKCN12R14X?il=0">Sakharov Prize</a> for Freedom of Thought. In 2018, she won the
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/world/nobel-peace-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> with Dr. Denis Mukwege. Nadia is the founder and president of
<a href="https://www.nadiasinitiative.org/">Nadia’s Initiative</a>, a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis and advocating for survivors of sexual violence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Nadia Murad<br>
Human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">November 3, 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">12:00 pm via Zoom<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Register for Event:
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