Last friday Nobel prizes

By unknown artist – A portrait of Nadia Murad

By unknown artist – A portrait of Denis Mukwege

💜💜💜 The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Mukwege, a gynecologist and surgeon, has long worked to treat thousands of women and girls affected by rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Murad is a Yazidi woman from the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar.

“Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, as she announced the award Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

“Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending these victims. Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others.

“Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions.”

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Music playing

By Degas – String’s soloist

By Rembrandt – David plays the harp before Saul

By Von Stuck, F. – The fife and the sleepy

By Dufy, Raoul – Contrabass

By Cassatt, Mary – The girls of the banjo

By Erhard, Christoph – Man playing the spinet

By Fantin Latour – A minstrel playing a lute on the riverside and sunset

By Picasso – Flutist boy beside a reclining woman

By Van Gogh – Violinist

By Tiepolo – Unknown title

By Cosway, R. – A singer posing with the music sheet

By Reni, Guido – Angel playing the violin

By Mulready, Augustus E. – Boy and girl resting with flute and tamborine

By Cocteau, Jean – Unknown title

By Morisot, Berthe – The feminine player

By unknown author of a manuscript. 18th century – Native peruvians playing music

By Fantin Latour – Performance of a singer and a player of lute

By Rowlandson, Thomas – Courteous young man plays lute for a lady

By Waterhouse J. W. – Untitled

By myself – Jazz musicians in my imagination