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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two figures bringing attention to sexual assault in conflicts

Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, treated victims of gang rape and Nadia Murad is a Yazidi activist kidnapped and held by ISIS.

(AP Photos/Christian Lutz, file) The combo of file photos shows Doctor Denis Mukwege, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, left, on Nov. 26, 2014 and Yazidi woman from Iraq, Nadia Murad on Dec. 13, 2016 as they both address the European parliament in Strasbourg, France. The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 was awarded to the Congolese doctor and a Yazidi former captive of the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.