Nobel Peace Prize laureates want to end impunity for sexual assault | World

The 25-year-old gynecologist and Iraqi woman will receive the Nobel Prize jointly for their fight against rape as a "weapon of war".

"This Nobel Prize will not eradicate violence, nor attacks on women, pregnant women, children, babies," Murad told reporters.

"But our goal is that the price opens doors, and that's already the case," he added.

Like thousands of other Yazid women, Murad was subjected to badual slavery by the Islamic extremist state after an offensive conducted in Iraq in 2014.

After s & # 39; to escape, the young woman, whose mother and six brothers and sisters were murdered, the persecution of the Kurdish people is recognized as genocide.

"No member of the Islamic State has been tried, they are no longer in Iraq, but we see rape as a weapon of war," he said.

Denis Mukwege has been serving victims of badual violence for two decades at the Panzi hospital in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an area affected by violence. chronic.

"The complaint is not enough, you must act," he said at a press conference.

"In armed conflict (…), the transformation of women's bodies into battlefields is an unacceptable act of our century," he added.