The very prestigious Noble Peace Prize 2018 has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the announcement on Friday. The prize winner will a whooping prize money worth nine million Swedish kronor ($1.01 million). Both were chosen from among 331 nominations.
According to news agency ANI, The physician Denis Mukwege has served the victims of war-time sexual violence. He 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.
Another prize winner, 25 year old Nadia Murad was also a joint winner of the won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize in 2016. Her story is very inspiring for others as she was abducted with other Yazidi women in 2014 when their home village of Kocho in Sinjar (northern Iraq) got attacked by Isis jihadis. Murad 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.
The committee declared them winner of Noble peace prize as they both put their life on risk for securing justice for victims.
