Denis Mukwege (born 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist, humanitarian and Pentecostal pastor who founded Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in treating women who have been raped. Since the Second Congo War he has treated thousands of victims of rape used as a weapon of war, some of them more than once, at times performing up to ten operations in a seventeen-hour day. In 2018 he and the Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war, and in 2013 he received the Right Livelihood Award. He has faced death threats and an assassination attempt in 2012, after which he and his family left the country over concerns for their safety. In 2023 he announced a run for president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and finished sixth, with 39,639 votes.
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is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor
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Born: 1 March 1955, Bukavu, Belgian Congo
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where he and his staff have treated the injuries of thousands of women victims
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he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor
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is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor
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he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped
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