translated from Spanish: Nobel Peace Prize recognizes Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege to combat sexual violence in wars

The Congolese Doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year for “their efforts to put an end to sexual violence as a weapon of war and conf armed war”, announced on Friday the Nobel Committee in Oslo.
Mukwege “has dedicated his life to defend the victims of sexual violence in times of war” and Murad “is the witness who has abuses perpetrated against it and against each other”, Nobel argued the Committee to award the prize.
Doctor born in 1955 runs a hospital in Bukavu that deals with the victims of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The doctor and his team “have treated thousands of patients who were victims of such assaults”, has condemned “impunity for massive violations and has criticized the Government of Congo and other countries for not doing enough to stop the violence sexual against the” women as a weapon of war and strategy”.
Nadia Murad, Member of the minority jazidi severely persecuted by the terrorist militia Islamic State, was a victim of this type of crime, said the Nobel Committee. However, “refused to accept the social codes that oblige women to remain silent and embarrassed by abuses that have been victims. He has shown immense courage to display their suffering and raise your voice on behalf of the victims”.
Murad was only one of the 3,000 women from the minority yazidi who were subjected to systematic abuse and used as a weapon of war by the Islamic State. She managed to escape from his captors after three months of captivity and denounced the abuses. In 2016 was appointed the first Ambassador of good will of the United Nations by trafficking in human beings.
This year the jury had to decide between 331 candidates nominated, 216 people and 115 organizations. The campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2017 “for his work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons”.

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