Nobel Lecture 2018 Denis Mukwege

Press releases December 9, 2018

Oslo, 10 December 2018

King, Grand Duchess and wartime sexual violence survivors at high-level symposium on repar...

Foundation news November 29, 2018

At our high-level symposium in The Hague, survivors and policy makers discussed ways how the international community can give recognition and support to victims of wartime sexual violence.

Members of the Global Survivor Network speak at international fundraisers conference

Foundation news November 5, 2018

Using the mantra of “Together We Can”, members of the Global Survivor Network engaged hundreds of fundraisers at the annual conference of the Resource Alliance. The reaction of the audience after...

Advocacy training for Congolese sexual violence survivor network

Foundation news September 7, 2018

Early September, members of the national Survivor Movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) participated in a training on advocacy, communication, budget management and fundraising. The...

Sexual violence survivors from around the world pay tribute to Korean 'comfort women&...

Foundation news August 16, 2018

Ceremonies in South Korea marked the country’s first Memorial Day for ‘Comfort Women’ on the 14th of August – a day dedicated to more than 200,000 girls and women who were...

Congolese experts train Guinea psychologists on holistic care for sexual violence survivor...

Foundation news August 7, 2018

The Mukwege Foundation coordinates the knowledge transfer on holistic care for survivors of sexual violence. Recently, psychologists from Guinea received a training from their Congolese colleagues at...

Statement by the Congolese Survivor Movement on the arrest of peaceful protesters

Foundation news August 3, 2018

Confronted with women and girls held in sexual slavery in the Kasaï region, Congolese authorities turn a blind eye on the situation and silence protesters.    In December 2017, the United Nations...

Communiqué du Mouvement des survivant.e.s concernant l'arrêt des manifestants

Devant la situation des femmes et filles retenues comme esclaves sexuelles dans le Kasaï, les autorités congolaises ferment les yeux et bâillonnent la parole les manifestants. En décembre 2017,...

Kavumu trial: Appeal verdict upholds all convictions

Foundation news July 27, 2018

On Thursday night, the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (HMC) has confirmed the convictions of all 11 accused in the Kavumu case. In 2017, 11 men were found guilty of...

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