Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege
#Nobel #Peace #Prize 2018

Born: 1 March 1955, Bukavu, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Prize motivation: "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

Dr #DenisMukwege is a world-renowned gynaecologist, human rights activist and #Nobel Peace Prize laureate from east #Congo. He has become the world’s leading specialist in the treatment of wartime sexual violence and a global campaigner against the use of rape as a weapon of #war.