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“Rape in war has been a crime for centuries. But it was a crime in the shadows. The two laureates have both shone a light on it,” Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told Reuters. Dr. Mukwege, a past winner of the United Nations Human Rights Prize and the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize, dedicated his Nobel award to all women affected by rape and sexual violence.
‘For all survivors’
Ms. Murad said she shared the award “with all Yazidis with all the Iraqis, Kurds and all the minorities and all survivors of sexual violence around the world.” “For myself, I think of my mother, who was murdered by Daesh (IS),” she said in a statement to Reuters. Murad was 21 in 2014 when IS militants attacked her village in northern Iraq. The militants killed those who refused to convert to Islam, including six of her brothers and her mother. Along with many other young women in her village, she was taken into captivity by the militants, and sold repeatedly for sex as part of IS’s slave trade. She escaped with the help of a Sunni Muslim family in Mosul, and became an advocate for the rights of her community around the world. Murad is the second youngest Nobel Prize laureate after Malala Yousafzai.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nobel-for-congolese-doctor-yazidi-activist/article25139593.ece
