Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, advocates for women harmed by war, win Nobel Peace Prize
The Congolese Christian surgeon and Yazidi activist have seen each of their homelands devastated by violence.
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese Christian surgeon, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist, were honored with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.”
The Nobel Committee announced the recipients in October; the prize will be given in December.
Mukwege—who founded Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for sexual assault survivors—gave the keynote address at the 2017 assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Windhoek, Namibia. He told the assembly about accompanying his father on pastoral visits to people who were ill and finding his own vocation in medicine.
