Central Africa: Nobel Laureate Calls for Sanctions Against Leaders Who Tolerate Sexual Violence

[allAfrica] Dr. Denis Mukwege, the Congolese obstetrician and gynaecologist who operates a hospital in Bukavu and who campaigns against the use of rape and sexualized violence as a weapon of war received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 in Oslo on Human Rights Day, December 10. He was the co-winner with Nadia Murad, a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq who became a human rights activist after being abducted and held as a sex slave by so-called "Islamic State".
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news