Dr. Denis Mukwege is a leading voice in the effort to bring attention to the continued problem of warfare and sexual violence in the Congo. Dr. Mukwege is an OB/GYN, a surgeon and the director of Panzi Hospital in the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He specializes in the surgical treatment of women who have been raped, usually by armed militia or soldiers, in the on-going war zones of Congo's eastern Kivu provinces. Panzi Hospital provides rape victims with psychosocial support, vocational training, medical and other support for those with HIV, as well as care for children who were conceived through rape. The hospital has developed strong connections with other medical institutions worldwide. Dr. Mukwege has recently been the recipient of several major awards, including the Daily Trust newspaper's first African of the Year Prize and the UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights. In 2009 he received Sweden's Olaf Palme Prize for being “an admirable example of what courage, persistency, and enduring hope may accomplish for human rights and dignity in times when these values seem the most distant.”
Previous awards nominee of this award are:Nobel-laureate Elie Wiesel;His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet;Archbishop Desmond Tutu and more on http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/
Others awards of Dr Denis Mukwege:
Olof Palme Prize (2008) [2]
African of the Year (2008), awarded by Daily Trust [2]
UN Human Rights prize (2008)[3]
In October 2010, Mukwege received the Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan
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