Vian Dakhil
Award Name : Anna Politkovskaya Award
Year of Award : 2014
Award for : Journalism
Location : Mosul, Nīnawá, Iraq
Vian Dakhil (born 1971 in Mossoul) is a current member of the Iraqi parliament.She is the only Yazidi in the Iraqi Parliament.Vian Dakhil is the Winner of the 2014 Anna Politkovskaya Award. She received the prize for her “courage to become the voice of the Yazidi community and by her determination to campaign for the protection of all Yazidi and other Iraqi women under Islamic State, despite the danger she is facing as a Yazidi woman politician opposed to Islamic State”.