- Human rights activist Nadia Murad and Physician Denis Mukwege have won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The awarding committee chairperson Berit Reiss-Andersen announced the winners at a ceremony at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo today.
- She said Murad and Mukwege 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.
Published On : 05 Oct 2018
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