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Denis Mukwege

1955 - Today

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Denis Mukwege (; born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped by armed rebels. In 2018, Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". Mukwege has treated thousands of women who were victims of rape as a weapon of war since the Second Congo War, some of them more than once, performing up to ten operations a day during his 17-hour working days. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Denis Mukwege is the 96th most popular social activist (up from 127th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Democratic Republic of the Congo and the most popular Congolese Social Activist.

Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynecologist who has been working for the past two decades to help women who have been victims of rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has performed over 30,000 surgeries and has been the target of many death threats.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Denis Mukwege ranks 96 out of 840. Before him are Widukind, Jane Addams, Beatrice Cenci, An Jung-geun, Amílcar Cabral, and Stenka Razin. After him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Errico Malatesta, Mairead Maguire, Frank Costello, Gabrielle d'Estrées, and Léon Jouhaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Denis Mukwege ranks 38. Before him are Olga Korbut, Guillermo Lasso, Mariano Rajoy, Nina Hagen, Svante Pääbo, and Chow Yun-fat. After him are Matteo Zuppi, Lazarus Chakwera, Sergey Shoygu, Li Keqiang, Timothy Laurence, and Israel Katz.

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In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Mukwege ranks 5 out of 107. Before him are Patrice Lumumba (1925), Mobutu Sese Seko (1930), Moïse Tshombe (1919), and Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939). After him are Claude Makélélé (1973), Dikembe Mutombo (1966), Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (1960), Félix Tshisekedi (1963), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (1939), Antoine Gizenga (1925), and Joseph Kabila (1971).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among social activists born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Mukwege ranks 1. 

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