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Denis Mukwege (born 1955) is a gynaecologist and Pentecostal pastor who specializes in the treatment of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have been raped by armed rebels. He 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 17-hour working days. 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".Photograph credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc