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SPECIAL ABOUT DR DENIS MUKWEGE (Democatic Republic Congo)
11 April 2013 |
Speech of Dr. Denis Mukwege about
sexual violence in Congo | European Parlaiment |
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The Mukwege Foundation
The French publication of his book, 'The Power of
Women: A Doctors Journey of Hope and Healing' |
3 April 2021 |
European Parliament |
To be continued |
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
The Guardian
6 Nov 2021
By Nesrine Malik
<<'I can't explain how I am still alive': Dr. Denis Mukwege on
risking his life to save African women.
In 1984,at the age of 29, Dr. Denis Mukwege moved to France from
the Democratic Republic of the Congo to complete his training as a
junior obstetrician. It was his first trip to Europe, and he had spent
half his life savings on the air fare. The city of Angers was to be his
home for five years, but he struggled to make it one. He would arrange
to view flats and on arrival would be told that they had just been let.
It took him a while to figure out that it was his skin colour that was
making apartments disappear. He finally found a home in a houseshare
with other students. When he took up his training position, he was
astonished at how well staffed and equipped the hospital was compared
with the one he had come from in the DRC, which delivered the same
number of babies annually with just two doctors, as opposed to 30.
Mukwege was already far more experienced than his peers in France. He
had gained expertise beyond his years working in a small,
under-resourced hospital where he operated on women and girls by
torchlight and often broke away, mid-surgery, to consult medical
literature for instructions.
Assisting in a caesarean section, he surprised a French professor
who, puzzled by Mukwege's skill, asked him if he had done this before.
<About 500 times,> Mukwege said. <Then why are you here?> the professor
asked. After his training, Mukwege would return to the DRC and embark on
a career that would save thousands of lives and galvanise doctors and
activists globally. He became not only a surgeon, treating victims of
rape as a weapon of war, but also an advocate, a champion of women in
the DRC and across the world.
He understood early on that his medical work would have limited
impact until the root causes of sexual violence were eliminated. So he
ran his surgeries, but also challenged different armed groups, and his
own government, for their complicity in sexual war crimes, inviting
threats to his own life. This has made him an inspiration to feminists
the world over. Michaela Coel called him a <real hero>. Jill Biden said
that <beyond healer to these women and girls, he is hope>. The author V
(formerly Eve Ensler), after meeting Mukwege in 2008, forged a personal
friendship with him, as well as a pro-fessional partnership to raise
funds and awareness with him. This culminated in the construction of the
City of Joy in Bukavu, Mukwege's birth town in eastern DRC, <a safe
space for raped women that offers protection, education, and inspiration
for its residents>. Mukwege has been clearing those safe spaces for
women since the first day he stepped into a small rural hospital in the
DRC in 1983. Thirty-five years later, he found himself in Norway,
accepting a Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to end the use of sexual
violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Today, Mukwege is
talking to me on a video call from a hotel room in Paris, where he is on
a whistle-stop tour prior to the French publication of his book, 'The
Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing'. >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/06/i-cant-explain-how-i-am-still-alive-dr-denis-mukwege-on-risking-his-life-to-save-african-women
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