- Denis Mukwege
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Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. Working in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Rwandan militia, Mukwege has probably become the world's leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape.[1] He has treated several thousands of women since the 1998 Congo's war, some of them more than once, performing up to 10 surgeries a day during his 18-hour working days. He has described how his patients arrive at the hospital sometimes naked, usually bleeding and leaking urine and faeces from torn vaginas.[1]
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Early life
Mukwege was the third of nine children born to a Pentecostal minister and his wife. He studied medicine because he wanted to heal the sick that his father prayed for, working at first in a rural hospital, then traveling to France to study gynecology, after seeing the complications of childbirth experienced by women in the Congo who had no access to specialist healthcare.[1]
Awards
- Republic of France "Special Human Rights Prize 2007" taken to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs Rama Yade (June 2008)
- UN Human Rights prize (New York, December 2008)[2]
- Olof Palme Prize (Sweden, January 2009) [3]
- African of the Year (Nigeria, January 2009), awarded by Daily Trust [3]
- Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government (French Embassy / Kinshasa, November 2009)
- In October 2010, Mukwege received the Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan
- The King Baudouin International Development Prize (May 24, 2011)[4]
- Clinton Global Citizen Award for Leadership in Civil Society (New York, September 22, 2011)[5]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Nolen, Stephanie. "Where repairing rape damage is an expertise," The Globe and Mail, October 22, 2008.
- ^ "United Nations Human Rights Prize 2008". 2008-02-14. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/UNHRPrize2008.aspx. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
- ^ a b "DR Congo doctor is 'top African'". BBC News. 2008-12-10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7828027.stm. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
- ^ "The King Baudouin International Development Prize, A Prestigious and Original Accolade". 2011-05-24. http://www.kbprize.org/index.html?current=43&page=2&page2=43&lang=en. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ "The Clinton Global Citizen Award". http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/2011/meeting_annual_GCAwards.asp.
Olof Palme Prize laureates Cyril Ramaphosa (1987) • UN Peace Keeping Operation (1988) • Václav Havel (1989) • Harlem Désir, SOS Racisme (1990) • Amnesty International (1991) • Arzu Abdullayeva, Anahit Bayandour (1992) • Students for Sarayevo (1993) • Wei Jingsheng (1994) • Fatah Youth, Israeli Labor Young Leadership, Peace Now (1995) • Casa Alianza, Bruce Harris (1996) • Salima Ghezali (1997) • Veran Matić, Senad Pećanin, Viktor Ivančić (1998) • Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries, Klippan Parent Group (1999) • Bryan Stevenson (2000) • Fazle Hasan Abed (2001) • Hanan Ashrawi (2002) • Hans Blix (2003) • Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Sergei Kovalev, Anna Politkovskaya (2004) • Aung San Suu Kyi (2005) • Kofi Annan, Mossaad Mohamed Ali (2006) • Parvin Ardalan (2007) • Denis Mukwege (2008) • Carsten Jensen (2009) • Eyad al-Sarraj (2010)
Categories:- 1955 births
- Living people
- Democratic Republic of the Congo people
- Rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Olof Palme Prize laureates
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
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