AMN
Physician Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad have won the Nobel Peace Prize-2018, the awarding committee announced today.
Speaking at a ceremony at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said that Mukwege and Murad won the award for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Murad, a Yazidi-Kurdish human rights activist, was captured by ISIS militants in 2014 and has spoken out about the abuse she suffered at their hands. In November 2017 she published her story in The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State.
Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, has spent his life working with victims of sexual violence in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize pic.twitter.com/LaICSbQXWM— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2018