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The Congolese gynaecologist, Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of rape victims, and Nadia Murad, the Iraqi Yazidi, who was sold into sex slavery by Isis, have been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel peace prize. 

The committee said: “They have both put their own personal security at risk by courageously combatting war crimes and securing justice for victims.”

 “ They both  helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence”.

 The joint award comes a decade since the UN security council adopted Resolution 1820 (2008), which determined that the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict constitutes both a war crime and a threat to international peace and security.

 

Who is Dr Denis MUKWEGE ?

We have few heroes in this world. Denis Mukwege is one 

 

He is the main street of hope for thousands in eastern Congo. He has stayed in a warzone for 14 years and practised medicine with bare medical resources and witnessed the unbearable enacted on the vaginas and bodies of women day after day. He has invented surgeries to meet the acts of cruelty and has helped repair 30,000 rape victims. He has opened and maintained a hospital providing ongoing care in a place with no roads, no water, no electricity, minimal internet or phone and rampant insecurity.

 WHO IS NADIA MURAD  ?  WHY IS SHE A MODERN HERO AS WELL  ? 

 

As a child, Nadia Murad Basee wanted to be a teacher or open a beauty salon, but as she reached the cusp of adulthood Isis swept into her small Iraqi village, and destroyed her world, her family and her dreams.

She was captured in August 2014 and sold into sexual slavery, targeted because her family belonged to the minority Yazidi religion.

Repeatedly raped and repeatedly sold on, she endured months of torture until one captor left a door unlocked. She gambled her life on an escape bid, and made it to safety.

 

Then, even as she grappled with the mental and physical aftershocks of extreme trauma, she decided to speak publicly about what she had suffered.

That meant revisiting her torture repeatedly, and in public. But Murad is extraordinarily brave, and her courage is amplified by dignity and clarity of purpose in telling her story.

She called her autobiography The Last Girl – because she wants her campaigning to ensure she is “the last girl in the world with a story like mine”


 

          She has focused on support for survivors, and a long-term search for justice, calling on the world to collect and preserve evidence that would allow Isis militants to be brought to trial.



06/10/2018
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