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In recognizing Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the first time has devoted its award to the abuse of women in conflict zones what some experts say has been an underappreciated aspect of war. official once called the rape capital of the world. Murad is among thousands of Iraqi Yazidis who have been treated as sexual property by the Islamic State, and since her escape she has become perhaps the most outspoken among them, campaigning to bring the militants to justice for war crimes.

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“We want to send out a message of awareness that women, who constitute half of the population in most communities, actually are used as a weapon of war and that they need protection,” said Berit Reiss Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Reiss Andersen said that war crimes and the MeToo movement are “not the same thing,” but that it is important that “women leave the concept of shame and speak up.”

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In a book she wrote about her experiences, Murad called her captivity “a slow, painful death of the body and the soul.”

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