Dr. Denis Mukwege, a local pastor and surgeon, is a tireless advocate for women and children suffering through war.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege denounced on Wednesday the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in the conflict ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- The World Health Organization (WHO ... The deaths were recorded between November 10 and November 25 in the ...

Panzi Hospital treats those women, and the tens of thousands more who have been violently raped since the war ended, victims of Congo’s wartime legacy of impunity. Platon, a friend of the ...

On average Panzi treats 1,300 to 1,900 women a year, even though Congo’s war officially ended a decade ago. When Rukunghu first started, seven years ago, she saw young and ­middle-aged women.