When another baby arrived, I realized that the problem could not be solved in the operating room, but that we had to combat the root causes of these atrocities. I decided to travel to the village of Kavumu to talk to the men: why don't you protect your babies, your daughters, your wives? And where are the authorities?
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Denis Mukwege
Gynaecological surgeon; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2018
Democratic Republic of the Congo · b. 1955
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Obstetrician and gynaecologist, founder and medical director of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he has treated survivors of sexual violence since 1999. Shared the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Nadia Murad for efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
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Taking action means saying 'no' to indifference. If there is a war to be waged, it is the war against the indifference which is eating away at our societies.
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