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Denis Mukwege
(born 1955) is a
gynaecologist
and
Pentecostal
pastor who specializes in the treatment of
women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have been raped by armed rebels
. He has treated thousands of women who were victims of rape as a weapon of war since the
Second Congo War
, some of them more than once, performing up to ten operations a day during 17-hour working days. In 2018, Mukwege and Iraqi
Yazidi
human-rights activist
Nadia Murad
were jointly awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
for "their efforts to end the
use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
".
Photograph credit:
Claude Truong-Ngoc
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