Murad who was abducted with other Yazidi women in August 2014 when their home village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq, was attacked by Isis jihadis. was joint winner of the won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize in 2016.
The same year, she won the won the Council of Europe’s Václav Havel human rights prize.
She was captured alongside her sisters, and lost six brothers and her mother as Isis jihadis killed the village’s men and any women considered too old to be sexually exploited.
Murad, 25, is the second youngest Nobel peace prize laureate after Malala Yousafzai, who was 17 when she won in 2014.
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“2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending victims of war-time sexual violence. Fellow laureate Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. #NobelPrize
The physician Denis Mukwege, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has spent large parts of his adult life helping the victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Mukwege and his staff have treated thousands of patients who have fallen victim to such assaults.
Nadia Murad, awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. She has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims.#NobelPrize
The committee says the Congolese doctor, Denis Mukwege has been “the foremost, most unifying symbol both nationally and internationally of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflict”.
Nadia Murad, a member of the Yazidi minority in Iraq, was captured by Isis and repeatedly raped and subjected to other abuses. The committee says she showed “uncommon courage in recounted her own suffering”.
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win 2018 Nobel peace prize
They are recognised for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon in war.
The former Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has expressed what is no doubt on many people’s minds when it comes to Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un being among the bookmakers’ favourites for the prize. She told Australian Associated Press:
That is an extraordinary proposition in anyone’s language.
But she had some praise for the US president’s unconventional approach.
President Trump adopted an unorthodox diplomatic stance … he’s continued to promote the personal relationship between the two leaders as the basis for a negotiated peace.
The credentials of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, have also been touted ahead of today’s announcement. She welcomed hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into the country in the face of vocal political backlash, which is ongoing. She has already been awarded the Saint Francis Lamp for Peace prize this year after she “distinguished herself in the work of reconciliation and the peaceful coexistence among peoples”
AP reports that among the nominees are the Syrian civilian aid group, White Helmets, also tipped last year, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, Edward Snowden and the UN High Commissioner for Refugee., AP reports.
The prize is worth The 2018 prize is worth 9 million Swedish kronor (£750.000). ast winners who came under criticism include former U.S. President Barack Obama, who won in 2009 after less than a year in office.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2018 WON BY DENIS MUKWEGE AND NADIA MURAD
