Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 5, 2018

Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Image: REUTERS/Nerijus Adomaitis

Nerijus Adomaitis

Correspondent, Reuters

Terje Solsvik

Reporter, Reuters

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A combination picture shows the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018 winners: Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad posing for a portrait at United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., March 9, 2017 (L) and Denis Mukwege delivering a speech during an award ceremony to receive his 2014 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg November 26, 2014. Image: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Vincent Kessler/

Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege delivers a speech during an award ceremony to receive his 2014 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg November 26, 2014. Mukwege is specialized in the treatment of rape victims and founder of the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic Congo.

Image: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

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Nadia Murad Basee, a 21 year old woman of the Yazidi faith, speaks to members of the security council during a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, December 16, 2015

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