2018 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 5 October 2018.

The citation

The citation reads: "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". They share the prize equally.

The laureates

Denis Mukwege was born in 1955 in Bukavu, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). Nadia Murad was born in 1993 in Kojo, Iraq.

Why it matters

Mukwege, a surgeon in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has treated thousands of victims of sexual violence. Murad, a Yazidi woman held captive by Islamic State, campaigns for survivors.

The prize

The prize is worth 9 million Swedish kronor, divided between the laureates. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.