Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has described the United Nations’ unanimous vote to create an investigation into the war crimes committed by ISIL as a major step forward for victims of the militant group to “finally get their day in court”.<br /><br />Clooney, who has been representing Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman captured and tortured by ISIL in 2014, has long pushed Iraq to allow U.N. investigators to help and said the resolution was a milestone in the fight for justice.<br /><br />Murad was studying in the village of Kocho in Sinjar when ISIL fighters slaughtered 600 members of the Yazidi community, including six of her brothers and stepbrothers.<br /><br />The younger women were taken into slavery and Murad became one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women taken prisoner.<br /><br />While captive in the city of Mosul, she was beaten, burned with cigarettes and raped when trying to escape.<br /><br />She was smuggled out of the ISIL-controlled area and in February 2015 she gave her first testimony to reporters.<br /><br />Since then, she has briefed the United Nations Security Council on the issue of human trafficking and conflict and become an advocate for human rights.<br />
