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Defender profile: Dr Denis Mukwege from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Update 5 October 2018: CONGRATULATIONS to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 today! Both laureates were awarded for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Dr Denis Mukwege is a surgeon and one of the most prominent human and women’s rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ISHR spoke with him during his visit to Geneva.

Dolly Ibefo Mbunga: Human rights defender in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Prominent human rights defender and Executive Director of La Voix des Sans Voix (the Voice of the Voiceless) Dolly Ibefo Mbunga, reflects on the situation for human rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the on-going and significant threat of reprisals. The conversation with ISHR took place at the regional consultations in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, which were facilitated by the office of the African Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, the Côte d’Ivoire Human Rights Defenders Network and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defender Project and ISHR.