Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad presented her new memoir, I Choose My Beginning, at the UN Bookshop at United Nations Headquarters in New York this week, according to UN News.

Ms. Murad is a Yazidi survivor of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL or Daesh. UN News said she spent more than eight years in advocacy work with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. She was the first UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking and moved on from that role just over two years ago.

Her first book, The Last Girl, recounted the 2014 genocide against the Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. UN News said six of her brothers were killed and she was taken into sexual slavery in Mosul. According to UN figures, more than 6,000 Yazidi women were taken captive. Ms. Murad escaped after three months, reached a camp in Kurdistan and was later resettled in Germany.

The new book looks at a different part of her life, she said. It focuses on healing, relationships, love and the chance to build a future.

Ms. Murad said that the many times she appeared in public and gave interviews left her feeling that she was vanishing into her activism. She said she kept going because her niece, who was also in captivity, might be rescued. After her niece Kathrine was killed, Ms. Murad said, she lost faith in humanity. She said her family and finding love helped her recover.

She told the audience that survivors are not at fault. “I didn’t do anything wrong. The world failed me,” she said.

Ms. Murad testified before the UN Security Council in 2015. She called then for international action against human trafficking and sexual violence in conflict. At the event, she said survivors should be included in policy discussions as leaders and experts. She argued that treating them only as victims who are expected never to recover will not prevent such crimes.

Actress Mira Sorvino, the current UNODC Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Trafficking, also attended. Ms. Sorvino said Ms. Murad had turned suffering into strength for others. She also said she is a survivor of sexual violence and that Ms. Murad’s courage had given her strength.

UN News said the UN system has tried to address sexual violence both as an outcome of war and as a crime that should be prevented and prosecuted.