Denis Mukwege

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to activists in the fight to to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Nadia Murad a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State in Iraq. Denis Mukwege is a gynecologist treating victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She shares the accolade with Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege.