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Denis Mukwege

Index Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukengere Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. [1]

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Angèle Diabang Brener

Angèle Diabang Brener is a screenwriter, director and film producer from Senegal.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991).

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Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity is an annual international humanitarian award, which is initiated to recognize and express gratitude to those courageous individuals or organizations that impact on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes.

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Bukavu

Bukavu (former official names: Costermansville (French) and Costermansstad (Dutch)) is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River.

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Civil Courage Prize

The Civil Courage Prize is a human rights award which recognizes "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor." The prize was founded in 2000 by the Northcote Parkinson Fund.

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College Tour

College Tour is a TV-show in the Netherlands, that interviews the most high-profile Dutch and international guests.

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Eastern Congo Initiative

The Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) is an American nonprofit organization established by Ben Affleck and Whitney Williams in 2010 as "the first U.S.-based advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on working with and for the people of eastern Congo".

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Four Freedoms Award

The Four Freedoms Award is an annual award presented to those men and women whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to those principles which US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed in his historic speech to United States Congress on January 6, 1941, as essential to democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.

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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is an academic institute that is housed in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Gulbenkian Science Prize

The Gulbenkian Science Prize (Portuguese: Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian de Ciência e Tecnologia) has been awarded since 1976 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, generally to Portuguese nationals or those whose work has been carried out in Portugal.

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Jigme Thinley

Dasho (Lord) Jigme Yoser Thinley (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་འཕྲིན་ལས་; Wylie: 'Jigs-med 'Od-zer 'Phrin-las) (born 9 September 1952) was the Prime Minister of Bhutan from April 2008 to April 2013.

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King Baudouin International Development Prize

The King Baudouin Foundation is an independent and pluralistic foundation based in Brussels whose aim is to serve society.

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List of banned films

This is a list of banned films.

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List of honours dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian.

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List of people related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of people related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Congo (Kinshasa) - the larger of the two Congos, that was also known as Zaire in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

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Mushaga Bakenga

Mushagalusa Bakenga Joar Namugunga (born 8 August 1992 in Trondheim, Norway), commonly known as Mushaga "Mush" Bakenga, is a Norwegian professional footballer of Congolese descent, who currently plays as a striker for Tromsø.

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Olof Palme Prize

The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme.

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Panzi Hospital

Panzi Hospital was founded in 1999 in Bukavu, the capital of the Sud-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Physicians for Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a US-based not-for-profit human rights NGO that uses medicine and science to document and advocate against mass atrocities and severe human rights violations around the world.

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Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and is presented annually in early December.

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Sakharov Prize

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, commonly known as the Sakharov Prize, honours individuals and groups of people who have dedicated their lives to the defense of human rights and freedom of thought.

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Seoul Peace Prize

The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 as a biennial recognition with monetary award to commemorate the success of the 24th Summer Olympic Games held in Seoul, Korea, an event in which 160 nations from across the world took part, creating harmony and friendship.

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Serious Request

Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas.

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Social aid for the elimination of rape

Social Aid For the Elimination of Rape (SAFER) is a Canadian humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization that was formed in 2004.

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Umeå University

Umeå University (Umeå universitet) is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden.

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United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966.

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Wallenberg Medal

The Wallenberg Medal of the University of Michigan is awarded to outstanding humanitarians whose actions on behalf of the defenseless and oppressed reflect the heroic commitment and sacrifice of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest during the closing months of World War II.

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2014 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

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2015 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for "its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011".

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2016 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people." The conflict is the longest running war, and last remaining guerrilla struggle, in the Americas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Mukwege

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