Monday, October 08, 2018

NOBEL PRIZE - Peace Prize

"Nobel Peace Prize winners fight rape as ‘a weapon of war’" PBS NewsHour 10/5/2018

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SUMMARY:  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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