OSLO, Oct 5, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi
campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their
work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world.
The pair won the award for their “efforts to end the use of sexual violence
as a weapon of war,” Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in
unveiling the winners in Oslo.
Both have come to represent the struggle against a global scourge which
goes well beyond any single conflict, as the ever-expanding #MeToo movement
has shown.