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Detailed explanation-1: -Denis Mukwege is a gynecologist specializing in the treatment of women victimized by sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights advocate who survived sexual slavery by the Islamic State in Iraq and published a memoir of the ordeal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Murad, a current AU student, was awarded the Peace Prize for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. She advocates for survivors of genocide and sexual violence, and she has written about her own experience as a prisoner of ISIS in Iraq.

Detailed explanation-3: -Global advocate against rape as a weapon of war “You can’t operate against violence, ” he says. “You can only abolish it.” Together with the Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, Dr Mukwege received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Mukwege has become one of the world’s leading experts on the treatment of internal injuries suffered by women subjected to gang rape. He has carried out countless operations, working long days of up to 18 hours. Typically, he was in the operating room when he was told that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Nadia’s peaceful life was brutally interrupted in 2014 when Daesh (Islamic State) attacked her homeland of Sinjar – with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis.