OSLO: This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners on Sunday called for justice for the victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world, a day before they will receive the award for their efforts to put an end to rape as a weapon of war.
Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Daesh, will jointly receive the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony on Monday in the Norwegian city.
Mukwege heads the Panzi Hospital in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu. The clinic receives thousands of women each year, many of them requiring surgery from sexual violence.
Murad is an advocate for the Yazidi minority in Iraq and for refugee and women’s rights in general. She was enslaved and raped by Daesh fighters in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014.
Murad has campaigned for a United Nations investigative team to collect and preserve evidence of acts by Daesh in Iraq that may be war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
The team began its work in August, a year after it was approved by the UN Security Council. Agencies
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