Newsweek BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 3/19/16

"With an estimated 3,000 Yazidi women and girls still held captive and traded by ISIS fighters, Murad’s work is nowhere near finished."

Newsweek Sat, Mar 19, 2016

In December 2014, ISIS published an informational pamphlet stating that sex with a child is permissible, as is the rape and selling and exchanging of non-Muslim women, as well as subjecting them to sexual slavery. While women are often the worst-affected by war, those who are subjected to sexual violence are not seen as victims of conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, the U.N. undersecretary general for sexual violence in conflict, said during the panel on Wednesday.

The international community needs to make sure “the world becomes aware that you can't talk about counterterrorism without ensuring the protection and empowerment of women,” said Bangura, adding that ISIS has generated an estimated $35 million to $45 million from the sale of women.

Murad told the U.N. on Wednesday that she was “given to more than 10” ISIS members, while other women and girls “were given to 20, to 30, to more.”

“They were exchanging us, giving us to different ISIS members every hour, sometimes every day,” she said.

Less than 24 hours after Murad's appearance at the U.N., U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said ISIS is committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shiites in Syria and Iraq. The declaration of genocide came after months of pressure to apply the contested and controversial label to the group's actions. 

“The fact is Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIS] kills Christians because they are Christians, Yazidis because they’re Yazidis, Shiite because they are Shiite,” Kerry said on Thursday.