the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad

for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence

as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Both laureates have made a crucial contribution

to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes.

-The Nobel Peace Prize, would that be a way,

if you got that prize --

and you have been nominated for many years --

to help your work get to another level?

-If prizes can change really the situation of women of Congo,

we need more commitment.

We need maybe ourself -- each of us here --

to ask himself, "What I'm doing, myself?"

What me, as a person, I'm doing to make this change

this change happen?

-I decided to seek justice.

Instead of trying to heal my own wounds,

I have decided to speak out against ISIS crimes.

This is a very personally costly affair.

-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,

and that the perpetrators have to be prosecuted

and held responsible for their actions.

We believe that this is a fundamental prerequisite

for lasting peace .