Nobel Peace Prize winners fight rape as ‘a weapon of war’

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Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday in Oslo, Norway.  The winners are two people fighting sexual violence. Twenty-five-year-old Nadia Murad, from Iraq, escaped enslavement, rape, and torture. She says she hopes to be “the last girl with a story like mine.” Dr. Denis Mukwege is a Congolese surgeon who has risked his life to treat thousands of rape victims. William Brangham reports.

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