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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111;letter-spacing:-.75pt">to Dr. Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad for Efforts to End Sexual Violence in War<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F9F9F9"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-05/nobel-peace-prize-winners-denis-mukwege-and-nadia-murad/10344968"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#310099;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="700" height="467" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D45CA2.4BFFCE20" alt="Two portrait images of a Congolese man and a Yazidi woman."></span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-05/nobel-peace-prize-winners-denis-mukwege-and-nadia-murad/10344968"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">PHOTO:</span></b><span style="color:#310099"> Dr
Mukwege and Ms Murad have been at the forefront of the fight to end sexual violence in war. </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#666666;text-decoration:none">(Wikimedia Commons; US State Department)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">Physician Denis Mukwege and former captive of the Islamic State group Nadia Murad have won the 2018 Nobel Peace
Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">Gynaecologist Dr Mukwege has spent large parts of his adult life helping the victims of such<b> </b>violence in the Democratic Republic
of Congo, treating thousands of patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">The Nobel committee said he had repeatedly condemned impunity for mass rape and criticised the Congolese Government
and other countries for not doing enough to end the use of sexual violence as a strategy in war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">His basic principle is that "justice is everyone's business," the committee said, calling him the "foremost, most
unifying symbol, both nationally and internationally, of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflicts".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">Ms Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others, the Nobel committee said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">She is one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi girls and women who were victims of rape and other abuses by Islamic State
fighters. She was held captive for three months before being able to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">In 2016, at the age of 23, she was named the United Nations' first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors
of Human Trafficking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">"She has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims," the
committee said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#F9F9F9"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111">In making the announcement, committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said: "Both laureates have made a crucial
contribution to focusing attention on and combatting such war crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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