Peace Prize winner urges action against sexual violence in war
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(9 Dec 2018) A winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize said that attention the prize drew to sexual violence against women in war zones must be followed by action against the abuses. Denis Mukwege made the comments on Sunday in a news conference with Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad, with whom he shares the 9-million Swedish kronor (1 million US dollar) prize. Mukwege was honored for his work with sexually abused women at the hospital he founded in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Murad for the activism she started after being kidnapped and raped by militants of the Islamic State. "What we see during armed conflicts is that women's bodies become battlefields and this cannot be acceptable during our time," Mukwege said through a translator. "We cannot only denounce it, we now need to act." Murad, meanwhile, said raising awareness was sometimes difficult. "In a way it's a shameful job for girls, for women to rise up and admit these atrocities have happened to them," she said, adding she had had to push her own feelings aside in order to carry on with her task. "We, the women and girls, have to move out of this violence," she told the news conference. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/15ce704a5194c3d8da3c85fd997b29ee
