Nobel Peace Prize awards Nadia Murad, Denis Mukwege for 2018

OSLO, Norway — Yezidi activist Nadia Murad and Congolese Dr. Denis Mukwege received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war" on Wednesday.

Murad, 25, was born in the village of Kocho in the Shingal region. In 2014, she was kidnapped by ISIS and held captive prior to escaping through the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. 

Over the past four years, she has been an activist for Yezidis as well as all women and children who have been victims of genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking.

Mukwege, 63, works as a gynecologist at the Panzi Hospital in the  Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Because of death threats, he has lived at the hospital since 2012. He has treated more than 85,000 women and girls who have endured gynecological trauma endured during in conflict.

Murad: Yezidis can’t return to Shingal until they get justice 

Mukwege: Fight to end rape in war must begin in peacetime 

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