Brussels, 26/11/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 26 November, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege - who treats female victims of wartime rape in his Panzi Hospital in Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo) - was awarded the 2014 Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament in Strasbourg (see EUROPE 110204).
Mukwege stated that the prize was a “very important sounding board to be able to transmit the crises of Congolese women and all women worldwide who suffer in their body, because war...