FILE PHOTO: 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. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Vincent Kessler/File photos
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo/CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts/OSLO (Reuters) - 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 Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
They were honoured for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
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