The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Dr Mukwege has spent large parts of his adult life helping the victims of such violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, treating thousands of patients.
The Nobel committee said he had repeatedly condemned impunity for mass rape and criticised the Congolese Government and other countries for not doing enough to end the use of sexual violence as a strategy in war.
Ms Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others, the Nobel committee said.
She is one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi girls and women who were victims of rape and other abuses by Islamic State fighters, and was held captive for three months before being able to escape.
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