The Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation has been awarded to Thérèse Mema Mapenzi for her work with those who have suffered sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The prize honours initiatives, organisations, individuals or projects that have made an exemplary contribution to working for peace.
Thérèse Mema Mapenzi is the Sexual Violence Programme Leader for the Justice and Peace Commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She works with rape victims in the city of Bukavu, in South Kivu, which is in the east of the country.
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