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UN Human Rights Joins Calls to Protect Nobel Laureate Mukwege

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has added her voice to those warning about death threats directed at the Congolese human rights defender and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege.The threats via social media and cellphone came after General James Kabarebe, former Rwanda defence minister and security advisor to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, "denounced Dr. Mukwege on Rwandan state television ... for his condemnation of a wave of recent killings by local armed groups in the South Kivu and Ituri provinces" in DR Congo, according to a statement by Physicians for Human Rights. Mukwege has been for the implementation of the recommendations of a UN Mapping Report on the most serious violations of human rights in DR Congo between 1993 and 2003. These include investigations and prosecutions for the murders of millions of people in the region and the mass sexual violence that caused thousands of women and girls to seek and receive treatment from the doctor and his colleagues at Panzi Hospital.

Congo-Kinshasa: Rally in Support of Nobel Laureate Mukwege After Death Threats

RFI, 3 September 2020

Hundreds of people have rallied in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Bukavu in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Denis Mukwege, who has been the target of… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Bachelet Urges Investigation into Death Threats Against Dr Mukwege

OHCHR, 28 August 2020

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday expressed deep concern over the recent death threats directed at the Congolese human rights defender and Nobel… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Call to Protect Nobel Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege After Threats Following Broadcast in Rwanda

Physicians for Human Rights, 17 August 2020

As a longstanding partner of Dr. Denis Mukwege – the renowned Congolese surgeon, 2018 Nobel Prize for Peace co-laureate, and Founder and Medical Director… Read more »
South Africa: Organisation Against Gender-Based Violence Calls for AU Action on Mukwege Threats

allAfrica, 18 August 2020

South Africa Women Fight Back (SAWFB), an organisation aimed at keeping all women safe from gender based violence, has sent a letter to the President of the Republic of South… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Congolese Rape Survivors Re-Enact Trauma in New Film

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 March 2020

The movie SEMA, meaning "speak out" in Swahili, is a fictional story about two rape survivors in their struggle to rebuild their lives and combat stigma Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Who Is Nobel Peace Prize Winner Denis Mukwege?

DW, 5 October 2018

The gynecologist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He shares the prize with Iraqi activist… Read more »

Torleif Svensson/Mukwege Foundation

Dr Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Laureate, at work (file photo)

Congo-Kinshasa: Attacks On UN Troops 'Not the Solution' - Nobel Laureate Mukwege

DW, 29 November 2019

Angry locals in eastern Congo have accused a UN mission of failing to prevent a massacre. But in an interview with DW, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Congo native Denis Mukwege… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Ennobling 'Doctor Miracle'

Guardian, 10 December 2018

Today (December 10) in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) surgeon-activist, Denis Mukwege, will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Women Left for Dead - And the Man Who's Saving Them

Fahamu, 29 May 2008

In the Congo, where tens of thousands of women are brutally raped every year, Dr. Denis Mukwege repairs their broken bodies and souls. Eve Ensler visits him and finds hope amid the… Read more »