Congratulatory messages are continuing to pour in for 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, with human rights groups appearing to put their seal of approval on the recipients.
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, described their win on Twitter as "long awaited Nobel recognition" of the battle against sexual violence in conflict.
Meanwhile Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, called the joint Nobel honor the "best prize in a long time."
Nadia Murad and Amal Clooney's fight for Yazidi justice
In her bid to bring ISIS to justice for the atrocities the group have perpetrated against the Yazidi community in Iraq, Nadia Murad joined forces with international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
With Clooney's counsel and support, Murad helped to put a face and a voice to the brutal realities of life under ISIS, revealing her traumatic experiences of being kidnapped, enslaved and raped by ISIS fighters in Mosul in 2014.
"I was taken with groups of unmarried girls and they took us all to rape us. they came not just to attack certain people, they came for all Yazidis," she told CNN last year.
Clooney said she wanted to help because the Yazidi community has endured "some of the worst crimes of our generation."
"We haven't seen a single prosecution against ISIS in a court anywhere in the world for the crimes committed against the Yazidis," Clooney said.
"What happened to (Nadia's) family happened to thousands of Yazidis in 2014 ... these are just simply some of the worst crimes of our generation. As an international lawyer, I wanted to try and help Nadia and people like her."
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