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Nobel Peace Prize to honour champions of struggle against sexual violence

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have dedicated their prize to the hundreds of thousands of women around the world who have endured sexual violence. [AFP/File / JOEL SAGET, MARK WILSON]

Champions of the fight against sexual violence, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, a former captive of jihadists, will on Monday receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which this year highlights rape as a weapon of war.

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