thought he founded the poncy hospital to meet the needs of the thousands of women victimized by these war crimes today he is one of the world's foremost surgeons specializing in the repair of physical injuries caused by brutal devastating rapes. however pouncey hospital also provides trauma treatment and programs to reintegrate women into society as a result of the sexual assaults many of the women have lost their families and the support of their local communities without the efforts of dennis mcnair gear and his staff at the palms hospital these women would have been left to fend for themselves. tennis mccleary has helped these women

as a physician but he has also been a fervent advocate for their cause and human dignity his mission has been to tell the world of this abuse to demand acknowledgment of the victims suffering and to insist the perpetrators be held accountable tennis mccleary has made enemies by unconditionally taking the victims side he and his staff have endured threats attempts on their lives and smear campaigns in twenty twelve one of his bodyguards was killed in an attack targeting. his family. for some people defending the cause of women is clearly an intolerable offense.

denis mckay again. we thank you for seeing the suffering and devoting your life to the best tool for women and against sexual violence. thank

you. this is the beautiful sound of thank you. now the movie rod grew up in the city village of cortes show and she had a good life with her large family dreaming like many girls of an education but also of makeup and clothes. all her dreams were shattered however when war came to kowtow in twenty fourteen ice's launched a campaign to gain control of north and iraq and exterminate the city minority. the rugs mother and six of her

brothers were brutally killed young women and girls were spared but another brutal fate awaited them they were taken prisoners by isis and transported to the city of mosul to be used as sex slaves each woman was a piece of property an object that could be bought at the slave market then used discarded sold or given away as a gift. the women were supposed to be circulated among men a man they were supposed to be treated brutally and humiliated with a way of breaking them down completely. the ultimate goal was the

extermination of the your city people. as the isis saw it the men had to be killed and the women so damaged that they became social outcasts the most effective way of destroying a community is apparent clear to destroy the woman it is beyond comprehension that the extermination of an ethnic group and the commission of atrocities against individuals can be rationalized by a religious belief. nadia the rod is a victim of war crimes and has experienced brutality and abuse of the most horrific and in her autobiography she has

described his shock pain fear and sense of debasement at times she wanted to give up but she had preserved an innate ability to resist and was never out. managing to escape as she did was in itself a great feat but today she is receiving the nobel peace prize for her activities subsequent to her time in isis captivity she has defy the social codes of shame and silence and dared to speak up on the abuses perpetrated against herself and thousands of years see the women and

children. in doing so. she has broken the stigma that has afflicted millions of women victims of war time sexual violence she has dedicated her life to be airing witness to war crimes and making sure that the world never forget this. no. move out we thank you for your extra ordinary coverage thanks

. ladies and gents. dennis mcqueary and now the on the rod have made significant contributions to combat this type of a war crime by focusing attention on the suffering inflicted on women in iraq the democratic republic of the congo and everywhere else in the world where sexual violence is used as a weapon. we must be aware of these crimes if we

are to combat them the war waged on women through the use of sexual violence has been a hidden war when time has come for peace negotiations and transitional justice these crimes have rarely been on the agenda the un special representative of the secretary general on sexual violence and conflict ms. so accurately stated. sexual violence in conflict needs to be treated as the war crime that it is it can no longer be written off all treated as an unfortunate collateral damage of war. thank you

thank you. ladies and gentlemen our understanding of the particular very vulnerable position of women in war has evolved it is an old problem but the will to establish legal protection for women is relatively new in the rome statute of nineteen ninety eight is the legal basis for the international criminal court and defines our costs such as rape and sexual slavery as war crimes when these acts are committed as a part of a systematic attack on the civil population the same principles where replied by the tribunals that don't with war crimes in. and former

yugoslavia i city are and i city why are these tribunals also handed down judgment against persons who initiated systematic rape as a part of wides widespread attack against civilians. the united nations security council followed by adopting resolution thirteen twenty five on women peace and security in the year two thousand. security council resolution eight hundred twenty from two thousand and eight goes a step further establishing that sexual violence against women in war and conflict is assessed to international peace and security.

it is important that international bodies set such legal and political standards but it is our common duty to live up to them. then this gear is spot on when he says justice is everyone's business then it's. hard to have both made significant efforts to advance this process both have been able to communicate the scale of the atrocities and demand prosecution of those responsible they have their by fulfilled key criteria in alfred nobel's will their work is

in fact a contribution to disarmament sexual violence is an intolerable weapon that cannot be accepted in warfare. their primary contribution however is to work out trade nobel called front turnitin of nations they have shown. that human suffering in war is universal. they have pointed out that women are predominantly invisible victims of the horrors of war pows laureates have demanded that injustice be combative with justice war crimes must be punished and their responsibility rests with the entire international community

both of them are thus fully. of alfred nobel's peace prize. thank you. ladies and gentlemen. this award obligates dennis mccrary. to continue their vital work but the award obligates as to stand side by side with them in the struggle to end war time sex or violence only then can the hopeful message of now the years all to biography the

last country. together we must make her generation of young women and girls the last generation to suffer from the sexual from the barbarism of sexual crimes thank you thank you then. would you please step forward to receive your diploma and gold medal.

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. thank you. and then i called for god to step forward and give her a noble lecture the floor is yours. thank you.

so have you jenna. to have the same morning many of your harvests your excellences and which members of the committee ladies and gentleman we should have a very good day thank you very much for the nod and have the committee for granting me such an honor with such a prize with my friend dr mcguire who works very hard to do what ever it takes you know to. those people who are victims of sexual abuse and to be a voice for those women oh have been abused i mean today i'd like to talk to you

from my heart even the most to share with you. in life and the life of the z. to society in iraq i want to tell you. are you so not that i have decided to eradicate one of the iraqi components through using the women and killing men and destroying workplaces today is a very special day for me it's the day where it is victorious humanity is victorious terrorism is defeated it's the day where women and children victorious. so long time of being victims are you hold that today will represent a new era were peace will be all over the place and the word and the whole

world will work to put and develop a new roadmap to protect women and and children. to read it kate the sexual abuses have been all it was a young lady in my village i then have no time before mation about the nobel prize i had enough i'm asian about the conflicts and killings in the world i had no knowledge about. the humanity can commit such a crying's. as a young lady my dream was to end my secondary school. and to have. the so loans in my village.

and the dream is to be a nightmare and what is never been expected has taken plays genocide and a result of this genocide i have lost my mother i have lost six of my brothers and sisters i have lost money if you just. use e.-d. family so every visit a family has similar story painful story. life has changed in a way that we cannot. even understand how every z.d. family has been this plays to and how this component has been charted. how a whole community who is peaceful and tolerant

is used to be a few to a war. throughout our history we have suffered a lot of genocide come. because of our religion and believes and due to these old to these genocide as we have only a few members and turkey and in syria the we were about eighty thousand today marks five thousand izzie it is in syria it is either it is even in iraq are facing the say the numbers are decreasing and the crazy. goal to eradicate this religion might be achieved if we couldn't save what must be saved it's the same in iraq for minorities or minorities

as the iraqi government and the government of good to stand failed to protect these minorities they'd say national community has also failed to protect us from certain . there were just watching and seeing what's going on with a real move to protect us house as family is our traditions our people our dignity our dreams they have guns. we get some international and local sympathy because of this genocide but the genocide is still going on the threat is on go inc. the z. these conditions in the prisons of is still is the same there are still in the camps. the. nothing has been built after being destroyed by i

so they and those perpetrators have not been yet taken to justice we need not more sympathy but we need a sort of a translation into an action on the ground if the international community is serious to help the victims of this genocide and if we want the is eed is to go back to their homeland and to the places that have the one day as it is to restore the confidence in the international community then has to protect the izzie it is under the supervision of the united nations with international protection and no guarantees will be there of being away from any come panes of any genocide there is a national community has to abide by the methods of protecting those who

victims of these genocides today is a very special day for all iraqis here not only because of the first iraqi and nobel laureate but because it's that day. we say the great the liberation of all the rocky land and territories from isis the old iraq is from south to north a been unified and faults on behalf of the. they. did it at. the iraqis i've been uni fly to face the ice in their floats and together we made it clear to the world that they are criminals we need to work together we need to be unified to fight rise still and we need to welcome all those whole made efforts we also need to condemn all who join

deisel to control and dominate their rockets at rest on the ice and thoughts must not be there in iraq anymore we need to be together to work for the development of our country for the development of the components of iraq and to bring peace and stability to iraq we need to remember every day how i assume those sympathizers have attacked the is either the boots or way in twenty fourteen old to get rid of these components. from iraq are still has committed this crime and this genocide against us is just because we see this and we have different. traditions and different beliefs on the twenty of the twenty first centuries and then the globalization time

for human rights more than six thousand five hundred years either is being women and children have been sold and have been victimized. despite all the calls since nine says twenty fourteen still in the future of more than three thousand years either women and children are unknown is unknown and. as having been so good as have been bolton so sure. is it possible that you know one kid as the leaders of one ninety five. why you to work. to liberate these girls as if they are part of a commercial d.v.d. or so weapon shipments. i think in this case of

weapons shipments or economic deals there for us will be more and more than there first being exerted to liberate the is either is children and women thousands have been suffering every single day. children in syria in iraq in yemen. and. every day hundreds of women in africa and other countries as the fuel towards projects for being killed without being helped the perpetrators are not taken to justice four years ago i have been here and there to tell the story of myself the story of my community without even a single. hope and without being able to fight sexual abuse against women and children if no justice is there

the genocide will be repeated again and against all the vulnerable communities justice is the only way to achieve peace to everyone if we need not the rapes to be repeated again we have to take those perpetrators to justice those who resorted to sexual abuse again as women thank you very much at lac to think you all for the owner you bestowed on me. no prize in the world can restore our dignity has bucked justice and taken the perpetrators to justice. they're all up three

the. place and we're not going to take a team no on a ring. and it will replace. beloved ones who lost their lives for nothing but being busy these there's no prize can restrict our lives between amongst friends and families and to protect the hadley remnants of our society because having these days we remember the seventieth anniversary of the united nations agreement or star genocides and to partnerships to make better traitors of genocide

my community is living the genocide for more than four years it's a national community that doesn't prevent genocide but it's a national community. to stop it and failed to bring the killers to justice a lot of sufferings are there all over the world. over the world they are victims of genocide and victims of other crimes downhearted that will take these either old this vulnerable in society as the response ability of the international community and the concern or going as asians to protect the human rights to protect minorities protection you know on human rights why not the full children and for women particularly. in areas where conflicts are happening. i

have participated in the paris peace conference to canada because. it was the had other than the verses of the end of the world the first war come out how many genocides how many wars have taken place and happened since the end of the world war one the victims are numerous the victims massive terror we the world have to acknowledge that we have failed to put and to the walls and to the genocides yes conflicts and problems and all over the place which we but also there are in this shit of and efforts to help the victors. without that of other burke chrisman i did and there have been the american didn't you and i wouldn't be able

to enjoy my freedom today and to talk about. and to tell the world about their crimes as well the world about what happened to see this one and that's why all the victims need as say plays until they get justice before . we tend to be aware that i mean they would as her education is him pull to and in developing their societies such as that believing in tolerance and in peace we need to invest in our children as the children of our white paper we can teach them tolerance and peace. and coexistence instead of paid for it and and one of them are women you must have must be as the key to sold out all the

problems and women have to be. part of parcel of the efforts of bring peace the voice of women could achieve a lot of changes when is it in the world what was. white was very proud of these either and they are patient and proud of these it is because despite everything we are fighting they were still fighting to get it right there is a it is lived in tolerance and in peace and these it is have to be an example to the world finally let mrs this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who are parent my message thank you for my team here very thank you to my living the part of the arab it who never let me down

thank you for the only privilege there were later a year after all contras that acknowledge that genocide again is the reason of it somehow today is either thank you to canada or australia. that safe haven for the victims from the is a this is thank you for the united kingdom for the head of this and mission of and for me and it's a national team to investigate the crimes against isis think you're to france the president called for their efforts for this thank you to the side of the kurdistan iraq for helping the displaced four years ago you couldn't be

a metered thank you to the emir of kuwait. nor we governments for you had the initiatives to hold the conference of reconstruction of iraq and only one thank you for the lawyer i'm a lonely and her team supposed to be exerted a lot of efforts to bring you to justice thank you for the greek government to help the we need to be unified again this. we need to have one in high voice said no to violence and yesterday for peace nor for tire only and yes for freedom yes for the human rights to everyone no to exploiting women and children yes for having dignity and life with dignity for them no for the perpetrators to be not taken to the justice yes should bring dignity

of justice thank you very much for hosting me thank you very much. for being for us . thank you you thank

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we're watching this year's nobel peace prize award ceremony. has been listening to . laureate giving her nobel lecture after receiving. and just after finished saying he will be hearing from the second recipient. giving his lecture in just a few moments from over ten to the start of many that just cause. she's live for us . has been quite an emotional award ceremony. brave but they've enjoyed such horror and sadness and the work. absolutely we really felt that with. that but i think what we also heard was her sense of frustration this is

a woman who has been to recount how ruing story of rape and torture in front of audiences at the united nations the european parliament and now. with the head of the nobel committee telling the story of what happened to her at the hands of. she has received many standing ovations but i think there was a definite sense of when we're going to see action absolute priority the reason why she accepts. the. this is because she's trying to see. bring about the rescue of the three thousand women still in captivity the three hundred thousand new c.d.'s who were in refugee camps in kurdistan she wants to see them resettled. and. brought back and given back their dignity and that is her priority and she's hoping that this will be a platform for that for her message for the half of the one million dollar prize

money will go to her to have no ideas initiative which has been instrumental in getting nation states to recognize the mass killing of use ease as genocide and also putting pressure on the u.n. security council to open an investigation into the war crimes committed by isolate against the use e.t.s. and she's done that with the help of human rights. you could see in the audience so yes a very powerful lecture delivered by now. that was really calling on the international community not to give her any more awards but to do something now for her people and how difficult do you think it is for her to be facing all this attention from people but also from the media to be in the spotlight when she's gone through so much. i think you could really see it in her face when the head of the no region knew about committee was detailing some of

the abuse she suffered the fact that her mother and six of her brothers were killed there was she was visibly visibly upset i mean this is a woman who's been traumatized and. reliving those events every time she has to speak them or hear someone else speak them. can only be traumatizing in itself i think i can hear the ceremony might be bringing you back now to dennis mcrae the second nobel peace prize laureate so inhabits a leader and yes we're just saying. of the nobel. there it makes anderson interesting dr a quaker so let's return to the ceremony. no world lecture thank you. thank.

the no. this is a talk with his new son catherine says they have been taught to kill two peter limits. three determined to. live a but to. abort all. we've been able to do is this so for their culture. i can imagine it. would. be only the beginning. forced to leave their massive start at seventeen thousand nine hundred ninety nine of three. hundred say how scuttle. of the temple where i was. upset international china color chester day the first patient and they did was a great fit in them history. has been charged. in her janet i was on

smack of the mark violence. you know limited to maneuver sadly this violence. has never stopped. andrew coleman is old one day like any other in the hospital received a phone call at the other end of the line a colleague ensued here's implored police and while you were happy to send us an ambulance fast let the police hurry themes of over in so we send an ambulance as we normally do. two hours later the ambulance returned inside a few us a little more about it is eighteen months old she was bleeding profusely and was immediately taken into the operation river when i arrived peter and all the

nurses were sobbing. the babies bladder. so genitals and rectum where severely injured. by the penetration of an adult yours yours we prayed in silence my god tell us what we are seeing isn't true tell us it's a bad dream tell us when we wake up everything will be alright but it was not a bad dream it was the reality it has become our new reality in their d.r. see. when another baby arrived i realized that the problem could not be solved in the operating brute. that we had to combat the root causes of these atrocities ideas cited to travel to the village of

cover more to talk to the man why don't you protect your baby your daughters your wife's. and where aren't the oil authorities in this village to my surprise the villagers knew the suspect everyone was afraid of him since he was a member of the provincial parliament and enjoyed absolute power over the population. for several months his militia had been terrorizing the whole village it had instilled fair by killing a human rights defender who had had the courage to report the facts the deputy got away with no consequences his polly america terry even me unity enable him to abuse with impunity. the two babies were followed by several dozens of other children when the forty eight victims arrived we where desperate at.

with other human rights defenders we went to a military court at last the rapes where prosecuted and judged as crimes against humanity the rapes of babies in coover more cover move stopped and so did the course to panzi hospital but these babies cite the logical sexual and reproductive reproductive health is severely impaired what happen in cover move and what is still going on in many other places and villages in congo such as the rapes a massacre in beneath and in this was made possible by the absence of the rule of law. collapse of traditional values and the reign of impunity particularly for those in power. rapes

massacres torture. with widespread insecurity and our flag rent lack of education create. precedented violence. the human cost of this perverted organized chaos has been hundreds of thousands of women great reach over four million people displaced within the country. and the loss of six million human lives you must imagine. the equivalent of the an entire population of denmark decimated. the united nations peacekeepers and experts have not been spared either several of them have been killed on duty. today that the united nations mission mission is still in the d.r. c.

to prevent. the situation from. degenerating further we are grateful to them. however for despite their marches this human tragedy. will continue if those responsible are not prosecuted. only in the fight against impunity can break the spiral of violence we all have the power to change the course of history when the beliefs we are fighting for. our rights. your majesty's. your royal highness us your excellences. distinguished members of the nobel committee dear madam. my heart. ladies and gentlemen friends of peace moved because it is in the name of the congolese people

that i accept the nobel peace price it is. certainly to leave it is all victims of sexual violence across the world that i dedicate this price and is with you military that i come before you. to race the voice of the victims of sexual violence in armed conflicts and the hopes of my compatriots i take this opportunity to thank everyone who over

the years has supported our battles but i am thinking in particular of the organizations and institutions of friendly countries my colleagues my family and my dear wife madeleine yeah. my name is the name of great. come from liberals developed land one of the richest countries on the planet yet the people of my country are among the poorest of the world. the troubling reality is that the embattled answer. of our natural resources gold coal town cobalt and other. strategic

minerals is the root cause of war it's extreme violence and checked poverty that we see in the democratic republic of congo we love nice cars jewelry and gadgets. but i have a smartphone myself these items contain minerals found in our country or optional might in new man conditions by all young children. vic links of intimidation and sexual violence. when you drive your electric car and you use your smartphone. or admire your jewelry take a minute to reflect on the human cost of manufacturing these objects. as consumers he left the us at least. at.

one time to go similar to. let us at least insist that these products are manufactured with respect do you. for human dignity. turning a blind eye to this tragedy is being complicit it's not just perpetrators of violence who are responsible for their crimes it is also those who choose to look the other way. my country is being systematically looted with a complete city of people claiming to be our leaders looted for their power they'll wealth and their glory looted at the expense of

millions of innocent men women and children abandoned in extreme poverty while the profits from our minerals end up in the pockets of predatory are eager to share. it all for twenty years now day after day. at panzi hospital i have seen the. consequences of the country's gross management of the baby this. young women mothers grandmothers. and also mentally ill and voice the fossil fuel cruelly received often publicly and colleagues collectively by inserting learning plastic or sharp objects in their genitals. i'll spare you the details.

congolese people have been at it abused and massacred for more than two decades in plain sight of the international community. today. today with access to the most powerful communication technology ever no one can say i didn't know but it's where this nobel peace prize is called on the world war to be our witness and i urge you to join us in order to put an end to this suffering that shames our common humanity. the people of my country desperately need peace. but not how to build a peace force on graves how to build peace without truth

nor reconsolidation how to be peace without. justice nor reparation. as i speak to you. i report is gathering more and. in an office drawer in new york. it was drafted following a professional investigation very strict in vegas into war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated in the congo this is investigation explicitly names the victims the places and the dates. but leaves the perpetrators nameless. to this mapping report by their office of the united nations high commissioner for human rights describes.