Nadia Murad has been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel peace prize for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Here, she recounts the harrowing experience of being abducted with other Yazidi women by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in August 2014. The gynaecologist Denis Mukwege is the other winner of the prize, for his work helping the victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo



