Denis Mukwege (; born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese

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and

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. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in

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, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped by armed rebels. In 2018, Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist

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were jointly awarded the

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for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". Mukwege's continued demand for justice for the victims of the Congo conflicts has resulted in him receiving threats against his life and the Panzi hospital. He has received these death threats on social media platforms, which emerged from various sources including Mukwege's country of origin, the DRC, and adjoining countries, namely

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and

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. Reportedly, the threats have emerged following Denis' increasing calls for perpetrators who were named in a decade-old UN report, to be brought before an international tribunal. A previous

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attempt was made on Mukwege's life in 2012, which resulted in him and his family leaving the country over concerns for their safety. Mukwege has treated thousands of women who were victims of rape as a weapon of war since the

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, some of them more than once, performing up to ten operations a day during his 17-hour working days. According to ''

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'', Mukwege is "likely the world's leading expert on repairing injuries of rape".Nolen, Stephanie
"Where repairing rape damage is an expertise"
''The Globe and Mail'', 22 October 2008. In 2013, he was awarded the

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for "his courageous work healing women survivors of war-time sexual violence and speaking up about its root causes." Dr. Mukwege's efforts to bring international attention to the prevalent use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and his demands for the perpetrators to be brought to justice has resulted in him becoming a renowned

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for

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and

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both within the DRC and internationally.

Early life and education

Born in

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– today the

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–, Mukwege is the third of nine children born to a

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in 1983, Mukwege worked as a pediatrician in the rural Lemera Hospital near

. However, after seeing female patients who often suffered from pain, genital lesions, and obstetric

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s after giving birth due to an absence of proper care, he decided to study

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and

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at the

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, obtaining his masters and completing his medical residency in 1989. His education was mainly financed by the Swedish Pentecostal mission. On 24 September 2015, Mukwege earned a PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles for his thesis on traumatic fistulas in the Eastern Region of the

Career

After completion of his studies in

(1989), Mukwege returned to work at the Lemera Hospital. At the beginning of the

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, the Lemera hospital was attacked, his patients and co-workers were killed and the hospital ransacked. Dr. Mukwege fled to Bukavu where he founded the Panzi Hospital in 1999. Its construction was mainly financed by Swedish Christian aid organizations and the

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. The Panzi Hospital has continued to enjoy support from the Swedish Pentecostal Mission's development cooperation organization PMU. Since its foundation, Panzi Hospital has treated more than 82,000 patients with complex gynecological damage and trauma. An estimated 60 percent of these injuries result from instances of sexual violence being used as a weapon of war, with most of the patients of the time coming from conflict zones. Mukwege has described how his patients arrived at the hospital sometimes naked, usually in horrific condition. When he observed that different armed groups were using genital damaging as a weapon of war during the conflict of the late 1990s, Mukwege devoted himself to

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to help female victims of sexual violence. The German Institute for Medical Mission (DIFAEM) has been supporting Mukwege's work with funds and medicines.

In 2008, the non-profit Panzi Foundation DRC was created in order to support the work of Panzi Hospital with "legal assistance, psycho-social support and socio-economic programmes." A Panzi Foundation USA was later founded to promote fundraising in the United States of America, and encourage investment in the Panzi Hospital and Foundations. In 2016 the Mukwege Foundation was created, to promote the aims of the Panzi Hospital and Foundations worldwide and "advocate for an end to wartime sexual violence everywhere." The holistic care approach that the Panzi Foundation employs reflects Dr. Mukwege's beliefs, as a co-founder of the organization, in the need for treating the person as a whole.

United Nations speech

In September 2012, Mukwege gave a speech at the United Nations where he condemned the mass rape occurring in the

, and criticized the Congolese government and other countries "for not doing enough to stop what he called 'an unjust war that has used violence against women and rape as a strategy of war. The

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has been called "the worst place in the world to be a woman" and "the rape capital of the world" because of the extent of the sexual violence committed against women resulting from the ongoing conflict. The UN has declared that sexual violence is more prominent in the Democratic Republic of Congo than any other country in the world.Full article
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Assassination attempt and return

On 25 October 2012, four armed men attacked Mukwege's residence while he was not home, held his daughters hostage, and waited for his return to assassinate him. Upon his return, his guard, and close friend, intervened and was shot dead by the assassins. They missed Mukwege as he dropped to the ground during the shooting. After the assassination attempt, Mukwege went into exile in

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and the Panzi Hospital reported that his absence had a "devastating effect" on its daily operations. Mukwege returned to Bukavu on 14 January 2013, where the population received him with a warm welcome over the 20 miles from

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to the city. He received a particularly warm welcome from his patients, who had raised the funds to pay for his return ticket by selling pineapples and onions.

Other activities

PSVI Film Festival Fighting Stigma Through Film (45106461595)

At 13 years of age, Mukwege took the decision to follow in his father's footsteps and become a Pentecostal minister, which was a transformative experience for him. He later said: "I started to speak in tongues. My whole being was filled with heat and a certainty that I was not alone. The experience was so overwhelming that I knew my life was forever changed by that moment." Apart from working as a doctor, he partly ministers in a Pentecostal church in Bukavu with 700 members. Mukwege has repeatedly named his faith in Jesus Christ as a primary

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for his work at Panzi. The Panzi Hospital is being run by the Congolese Pentecostal movement CEPAC and has been continuously supported by the Swedish Pentecostal movement. In 2015, Mukwege was invited to speak at Nyhemsveckan, the annual Pentecostal conference in central Sweden. He then said:

From this place, people have been praying for my beloved country and tonight it is a privilege for me to stand here as a fruit of your prayers. My congregation belongs to the Congolese Pentecostal Movement Cepac, and with about one million members it is a fruit of your prayers. The Panzi hospital is a fruit of your prayers. The church must be based on prayer. The Bible tells us to be thankful and thus, I want to be a representative for all those who received the blessings from your efforts in my country and elsewhere, saying thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Dr. Mukwege founded the City of Joy with

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and Christine Schuler Deshryver as a place to support the women who were victims of sexual assault as a weapon of war and treated at the Panzi Hospital. The City of Joy works to support the healing of the patient's mental and emotional trauma from the assault while also providing them with life skills and leadership training to ensure their success in their community upon their return. The City of Joy has proven to transform and empower participant's views on financial matters and domestic decisions. The City of Joy opened its doors in 2011, and a Netflix documentary was released about the City of Joy in 2016. When the United Kingdom assumed the presidency of the G7 in 2021, Mukwege was appointed by the United Kingdom's

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to a newly formed Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC) chaired by

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Board membership

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(WHO), Member of the Science Council (since 2021) * '' The Uncondemned'', Member of the Board of Advisors * Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL), Member of the Global Advisory Board * Panzi Foundation, President, Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer. * Mukwege Foundation, Special Advisor on the board * Th
Global Fund for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Co-founder and President * Fight Impunity, Member of the Honorary Board

Personal life

Mukwege has three daughters.

Recognition

Awards

* UN Human Rights prize (New York, December 2008) *

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(Sweden, 2008) * African of the Year (Nigeria, January 2009), awarded by ''

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'' * Chevalier de la

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by the French government (Kinshasa, November 2009) by French Ambassador Pierre Jacquemot. * Van Heuven Goedhart-Award (June 2010) from the Netherlands Refugee Foundation ( Stichting Vluchteling) * The Wallenberg Medal (

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, October 2010) * The King Baudouin International Development Prize (Brussels, 24 May 2011) by the King of Belgium Albert II. *

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for Leadership in Civil Society (New York, September 2011) by President

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. * The 2011 Deutscher Medienpreis (German Media Award) (

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, Germany, February 2012) * Officier de la Légion d'Honneur Française (Panzi, July 2013) brought to

by the First Lady of France Valérie Trierweiler and the Minister of Francophonie Yamina Benguigui. * Civil Courage Prize (October 2013) *

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Award (August 2013) *

(September 2013) * "Prize for Conflict Prevention" by the Fondation Chirac (Paris, October 2013) honored by the presence of 2 French presidents

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and

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* The

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Award (Washington, DC, February 2014) at

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for Advancing Women in Peace and Security along with the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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* The Inamori Ethics Prize from the

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Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence (October 2014) * Solidarity Prize received from

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and the Saint-Pierre University Hospital (Brussels, October 2014) * The

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for the Freedom of Thought, received from the

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(Strasbourg, November 2014) *

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(Lisbon, July 2015) * Women for Women International "Champion for Peace Award" (New York, November 2015) * Prix Héros pour l'Afrique (Hero for Africa) (Brussels, January 2016) *

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Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women's Health (Philadelphia, March 2016) * ''

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'' Magazine 35th World Greatest Leader of 2016 (March 2016) *

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Laureate for the Freedom From Want, by the Roosevelt Institute in New York and Franklin D. Roosevelt Stichting ( Middelburg, Netherlands, April 2016) * Scandinavian Human Dignity Award Laureate, by the Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers & Committee (

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, October 2016) * Seoul Peace Prize (

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, Korea, October 2016) * ''Time'' magazine's 100 Most Influential People (2016) *

, with

(October 2018) *Mukwege was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by

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magazine in 2018.

Honorary degrees

* Honorary Doctorate by the faculty of medicine at

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(Sweden, June 2010) * Honorary degree from the

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(UCLouvain, Belgium, February 2014) along with

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and Jigme Thinley *

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Honorary degree as Doctor of Science (Boston, May 2015) *

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Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine (

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, December 2017) *

(French: Université d'Angers) Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine (

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, France, January 2018). * Honorary degree from

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Honorary Degree Doctor Honoris Causa (

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, September 2018) *Honorary degree from the University of Antwerp (April 2019) * Honorary degree from

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(

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, May 2019) * Honorary degree from New University of Lisbon (

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, May 2019) * Honorary degree from

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(

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, June 2019)

Publications

* Colette Braeckman: ''L'homme qui répare les femmes. Violences sexuelles au Congo. Le combat du docteur Mukwege''. Bruxelles, André Versaille, 2012. . * Denis Mukwege
"Dr. Mukwege Fights Back"
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,'' 2 November 2012. *(in French) Denis Mukwege, Guy-Bernard Cadière: ''Panzi''. Editions Du Moment, 2014. * Denis Mukwege: ''Plaidoyer pour la vie''. Editions Archipel, 2016. . *(in French) Denis Mukwege, Guy-Bernard Cadière, Julien Oeuillet: ''Réparer les femmes: Un combat contre la barbarie''. Mardaga, 2019.

Documentary films

* Angèle Diabang Brener 2014: ''Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes'' (in French). *

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and

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2015: ''The Man Who Mends Women: The Wrath of Hippocrates''.

References

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