and it was of course terrifying dr macwhich had left of the congo for a period of a few months and then. tells the most extraordinarily beautiful story of market women in the congo began to raise funds from selling vegetables small sale small amounts of money as he says it women the women who just make a few dollars a day to try to raise funds to say we would like you to come back and when dr mcwade heard this he decided i have to return and so it great personal risk he went back exactly to the city where assassins had tried to kill him and he's there today continuing to do is work under great threat we constantly worry about him and his safety and it's extraordinarily important that people like him and as zen is saying is that we're discussing right now the survivors of sexual violence they be given all the possibilities to speak out to be protected to tell their stories and to obtain justice zana you have said in the past that underlying gender discrimination enable sexual violence to occur before and after conflicts and during peace time could you elaborate a bit on that. yes absolut

dr macwhich has been working tirelessly to make sure that the voices of survivors are heard and as susanna said it's not just the congo it's not just iraq as your story said it's myanmar it's colombia it is women going back to world war two who are still are alive the comfort women so-called from south korea there are women survivors who so much want to tell their story want to be heard and demand justice for the horrible things that have occurred to them in too many countries in too many places for much too long this is in a could you explain to our audience a bit more about the kind of trauma both psychological and physical that survivors of sexual violence go through. yes well certainly rape is a violent physical act and it causes acute and extensive potentially harm to the human body obviously there is physical trauma what dr mcwade he has treated and tens of thousands literally in his clinic and tens of thousands of women in the congo are some of the extreme physical consequences of sexual violence when weapons are actually inserted into reproductive organs and women are mutilated and

that is certainly the hope of all of us and of dr mccuaig dr macwhich has been working tirelessly to make sure that the voices of survivors are heard and as susanna said it's not just the congo it's not just the rock as your story said it's myanmar it's colombia it is women going back to world war two who are still are alive the comfort women so-called from south korea there are women survivors who so much want to tell their story want to be heard and demand justice for the horrible things that have occurred to them in too many countries in too many places for much too long this is in a could you explain to our audience a bit more about the kind of trauma both psychological and physical that survivors of sexual violence go through. yes well certainly rape is a violent physical act and it causes acute and extensive potentially harm to the human body obviously there is physical trauma what dr mcwade he has treated and tens of thousands literally in his clinic and tens of thousands of women in the congo are some of the extreme physical consequences of sexual violence when weapons are ac

us about his reaction to winning the nobel prize and what it means to him thank you i've known dr macwhich for about fifteen years and today he actually was at his hospital in bukavu in eastern congo performing surgery he had not heard anything he doesn't take his telephone of course into the operating room so he was finishing an operation and he said that he heard a lot of women making an enormous amount of noise and he realized that they were. raising their voices with joy and he says that is how he learned that he was the nobel of nobel peace prize winner for this year really it couldn't be a more fitting way that this amazing man was doing what he loves to do being a doctor in the operating room. helping a person in need and then he hears the cries of joy of the women of bukavu and that's how the noise comes to him. how will the nobel price a dock to mccuaig a in his way raise his profile but more importantly costs a much needed spotlight on what it is that he's doing. but dr mcwhorter certainly hopes as do we all that this prize will raise global attention to this scourge of sexual vi

nobel peace prize the committee chose to honestly to come pain and not arrived and congolese dr dennis macwhich for their efforts to put a stop to rape as a weapon of war. not you mourad was one of those women in two thousand and fourteen she was kidnapped in mosul and handed over to a militant from the so-called islamic state by religious she managed to escape and described her ordeal to the u.n. security council. humiliated every day he gave me clothes that didn't cover my body i could no longer bear the rape and torture so why escaped. in two thousand and fourteen years edis in northern iraq fled militants. well you see the men were killed some three thousand girls and women were taken as slaves. nattie who are out went on to become the un's first goodwill ambassador for survivors of human trafficking. dennis mccuaig is a renowned gynecologist who treats victims of sexual violence he has helped tens of thousands of women at his hospital in east congo. as a weapon of war is dish and he merely ating. a weapon which has plagued east congo for decades here the offenders go largely unpunished. we

that is certainly the hope of all of us and dr mccuaig dr macwhich has been working tirelessly to makesure that the voices of survivors are heard and as susanna said it's not just the congo it's not just iraq as your story said it's myanmar it's colombia it is women going back to world war two who are still are alive the comfort women so-called from south korea there are women survivors who so much want to tell their story want to be heard and demand justice for the horrible things that have occurred to them in too many countries in too many places for much too long this is in a could you explain to our audience a bit more about the kind of trauma both psychological and physical that survivors of sexual violence go through. yes well certainly rape is a violent physical act and it causes acute and extensive potentially harm to the human body obviously there is physical trauma what dr mcwade he has treated and tens of thousands literally in his clinic and tens of thousands of women in the congo are some of the extreme physical consequences of sexual violence when weapons are actually ins

i can understand dr macwhich it has been described by those who know him as a miracle doctor story very he is that a lot of people say that this prize has been a long time coming. well dr mcquade has worked for the past twenty years and pandit hospital which is started and he has treated over fifty thousand victims of rape there so this is an award certainly to somebody who has done already something on that just a you know award to help that somebody is doing something yes yes been on the short is hard long time and i think not only because he treats women medically but he treats them as human beings and he actually very open addresses the root causes of the conflicts and the violence in eastern congo that gina can you talk to us through his life and work. yes he's a trained gen ecologists he was born in congo he studied medicine in burundi specializing on the gin obst quite early east started to work in a hospital which actually destroyed in the war moved to puns e. and then he realized that women were coming to him with the most atrocious. violations or injuries due to the sexual sex

macwhich it has been honored by the u.n. many other organizations in the past for his work he's been called dr americal did this announcement come as a surprise to you. it's not a surprise actually i was very happy that finally dennis macwhich a has been you know named and has been given this prize this time around you know that he has been favorite for us i mean like people have been speculating for quite a long time that he should be given this this prize he has been named still miracle because he is a believer he is he has been fighting against sexual violence for quite a long time and you know about his. own vision he founded his hospital in one thousand nine hundred nine and that hospital actually was founded because he has seen misery of many women being suffering with lung without being helped and for that reason i think he deserved and this prize put to today it has been not a surprise but it has been a great moment for not only him but khamenei people who are fighting against against sexual violence some to tell us more about his life and how he came to do this work. dennison macwhich i actually was born in one thou

well views as you see him today was a normal day until the announcer of the prize dr macwhich is incredible because not only does he continue to treat survivors where rape continues to be used as a weapon of conflict in the congo he's a surgeon he works in his clinic but he also is incredibly outspoken globally on behalf of survivors of sexual violence bringing global attention to this so the nobel prize is an additional very important global platform that allows this message that he carries which is about the needs of survivors but also the access to justice and the incredible and profound impunity that is dominant around the world we still do not have justice for the masses of victims of sexual violence in the d.r.s. see dr mcwade this country nor is there a platform for the prosecutions in iraq not to mention in myanmar where the rohingya women have been violated and of course as you've we've all seen today sexual assault victims are also disrespected. in the united states and elsewhere as well tell us more about the work that he's done that panzi hospital in because of where you've work

dr miracle. this is congolese gynecologist denise macwhich working at the puns a hospital which established in the democratic republic of congo for two decades he has tirelessly works to treat and protect women who have suffered sexual violence and he has risked his life doing so in two thousand and twelve men stormed his home in south kivu province killing a member of his staff. who quickly fled the country but returned in two thousand and thirteen to make this my decision to come back to because it was motivated by the fact that i was determined to pursue the fight against sexual violence which is taking place in eastern congo the second reason was the determination of the congolese women whether it's women in the d.s.p. or women of the country that a band and their cause were too strong for me to resist. the war the d.l.c. officially ended in two thousand and three but violence between government troops and rebels with foreign backing continues particularly in the mineral rich east of the country. the quick history chief tens of thousands of rape victims women children and even babies. only hav

later dr mcwade dedicated his price to all women when did by conflict and confronted by sexual violence. the nobel peace prize is not the first time the world has recognized that danny's macwhich his work has previously won the united nations human rights prize and the right livelihood award often referred to as the alternative nobel. works call is one of the right livelihoods directors and joins us from london welcome to day w a tell us more about dennis macwhich his work. as was mentioned dennis mcquade is gynecologist he is a surgeon and he had for several decades developed methods of such a relief for women who had been affected not only by rape but also by sister and other logical conditions then he saw more and more victims of these sexualized atrocities coming into his hospital and that has turned him into the global voice against sexualized violence which he now is and he's working he didn't just work with the women's bodies did he think he took a much more holistic approach to healing. indeed the hospital also works on the psychosocial cares. the surgery of course is important and a lot can be done to help victims but then the long perspective of how to find back in t

denis macwhich has spent a large part of his life helping victims of sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo since the pouncey hospital was established in the cargo in two thousand and eight dr mccoy and his staff have treated thousands of patients who have four victims to such assaults. most of the abuses have been committed in the context of a long lasting civil war that has cost the lives of more than six million congolese. dennis machir is the foremost most unifying symbol both nationally and internationally of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflicts his basic principle is that justice is everyone's business men and women officers and soldiers local national and international authorities ally all have a shared responsibility for reporting and combat this type of war crime. the importance of denis mccririck is and during dedicated and selfless efforts in this field cannot be overrated he has repeatedly condemned impunity for mass rape and criticized the congolese government and other countries for not doing enough to stop the use of sexual violence against women as a strategy and weapon of war. rod is herself a victim of war crimes she refused to ac

dr miracle he established his own hospital in one thousand nine hundred ninety pacifically to treat female victims of sexual violence during the civil war and has helped thousands of women since then. dennis macwhich it is the hill who has devoted his life to defending these victims. rod is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others each of them in their own way. has him to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions well tash are going to name has more now on. who spent the last four years campaigning for justice. nudge him a rod refused to be shamed and refused to be silenced four years ago i saw fighters attacked her village in northern iraq she was taken captive and sold repeatedly for sex for her lebanese. he humiliated me every day he forced me to wear coats that didn't cover my body i was tortured i tried to flame but one of the gods stopped me and that night he beat me he asked me to take my clothes off and put me in a room with the gods then they proceeded to commit their crime and i thank you since she escaped from i still controlled mosul she has fought to put the suffering of the p