We Are Winning: Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Awarded To Nadia Murad Who Has Been Fighting The Trafficking Of Children And Women Dr Mukwege is a male Congolese gynaecologist who, along with his colleagues, has treated tens of thousands of victims. Some 331 individuals and organisations were nominated for the prestigious peace award this year. The winners announced in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Friday won the award for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war", Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, said.  The pair both made a "crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes", Ms Reiss-Andersen added. 'Nadia Murad is herself a victim of war crimes. She refused to accept the social codes that require women to remain silent and ashamed of the abuses to which they have been subjected. She has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims.' https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/The-Nobel-Peace-Prize-2018 Ms Murad, 25, said in a statement that many Yazidis would "look upon this prize and think of family members that were lost, are still unaccounted for, and of the 1,300 women and children, which remain in captivity". Dr Mukwege was operating at his hospital when he heard he had won the prize. "I was in the operating room so when they started to make noise around [it] I wasn't really thinking about what was going on, and suddenly some people came in and told me the news," he told Norwegian newspaper VG. He dedicated his award to all women affected by sexual violence "This Nobel prize is a recognition of the suffering and the failure to adequately compensate women who are victims of rape and sexual violence in all countries around the world," he told reporters gathered outside his clinic. I will later add some links below you might want to use as redpill info. Who is Nadia Murad? Nadia Murad endured three months as a sex slave at the hands of IS militants. She was bought and sold several times and subjected to sexual and physical abuse during her captivity. After escaping, she became an activist for the Yazidi people, campaigning to help put an end to human trafficking and calling on the world to take a tougher line on rape as a weapon of war.  Nadia Murad was named the UN's first goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking later that year.  Especially looking at you here, @letsdothis2 ;-) Who is Denis Mukwege? Mukwege is likely "the world's leading expert on repairing injuries of rape." He has spent decades helping rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He and his colleagues are said to have treated about 30,000 rape victims, developing great expertise in the treatment of serious injuries sustained during sex assaults that were carried out as a weapon of war. The 63-year-old has won a number of international prizes, including the 2008 UN Human Rights Prize, and was named African of the Year in 2009. He lives under the permanent protection of UN peacekeepers at his hospital and has also previously called for a tougher line on rape as a weapon of war. Trigger warning Denis Mukwege in his own words 'It was in 1999 that our first rape victim was brought into the hospital. After being raped, bullets had been fired into her genitals and thighs. I thought that was a barbaric act of war but the real shock came three months later. Forty-five women came to us with the same story, they were all saying: "People came into my village and raped me, tortured me." Other women came to us with burns. They said that after they had been raped, chemicals had been poured on their genitals. I started to ask myself what was going on. These weren't just violent acts of war, but part of a strategy. You had situations where multiple people were raped at the same time, publicly - a whole village might be raped during the night. In doing this, they hurt not just the victims but the whole community, which they force to watch. The result of this strategy is that people are forced to flee their villages, abandon their fields, their resources, everything. It's very effective'. Please continue reading here. I invite critical comments on awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to them.  @Vindicator @EricKaliberhall @ben_matlock @srayzie @Crensch