Yazidi Nadia Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwiji won the Nobel Peace Prize

BAGHDAD / NINA / - The Swedish Academy on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwiji for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. The Swedish Academy said that Dennis Mokwighi was the person dedicated to defending the victims of sexual violence in wartime. Nadia Murad is the witness who spoke about the violations committed against herself and others. Doctor Denis Mukwagi spent large parts of his life helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Mukwiji and his staff treated thousands of patients who were victims of such attacks. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dennis Moquiege has repeatedly condemned this year's impunity for mass rape and has criticized the Congolese government and other countries for not doing enough to stop the use of sexual violence against women as a strategy and weapon of war. Nadia Mourad Bassi Taha is an Iraqi Yazid girl from Kujou village in Sinjar district. She was born in 1993. She married in August 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany. Nadia Murad is one of the victims of the Islamic State Organization (Daesh) who took her as a slave after they managed to occupy her village and killed her family, including her mother and six of her brothers, but after a period managed to escape from Daesh and arrived in a safe place and then deported to Germany to be treated there from the physical and psychological harm she suffered from members of the Islamic State Organization of rape, Sexual violence and all forms of abuse, and after a period appeared in Several television interviews and diplomatic meetings, including the UN Security Council, and then also to the Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, and then Sheikh Al-Azhar Ahmed Tayeb in the month of December 2015. / End