
Congolese and Yazidi Anti-Rape Activists Win Nobel Peace Prize
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to campaigners against rape in warfare, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege.
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to campaigners against rape in warfare. We speak with Dr Denis Mukwege who has treated thousands of women requiring surgery after being raped by armed men, and hear from Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants and later became the face of a campaign to free the her people.
Also in the programme; France has opened an investigation into the disappearance of the Chinese head of the international police agency, Interpol; and India has signed a deal with Russia to buy a surface to air missile system, disregarding US warnings that such a purchase could trigger sanctions.
(Picture: Nadia Murad and Dr Denis Mukwege displayed in the Nobel Field, among the other 128 Peace Prize laureates of the Nobel history in Oslo. Credit: Fredrik Hagen / NTB Scanpix / AFP)
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