This year's Nobel Peace Prize winners on Sunday called for justice for the victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world, a day before they will receive the award for their efforts to put an end to rape as a weapon of war.

Nobel Peace Prize winners demand global action on mass rape.

Denis Mukwege, along with Nadia Murad, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for trying to stop the use of sexual violence in warfare in his native Congo. DW asked him how he felt about the fact that the Nobel committee chose to highlight this issue.

Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in prison to lead South Africa to freedom from white rule. He became the country's first black president and won the Nobel Peace prize for his policy of reconciliation.

Over 680,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar since the summer of 2017. Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates met Rohingya refugees at the Rohingya refugee camps Cox's Bazar.

More than two dozen Nobel Peace prize winners, from Lech Walesa to Rigoberta Manchu, are in Colombia’s capital Bogota for the 16th annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.