{"id":47114,"date":"2014-11-29T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_fgm_expert_brings_tears_to_meps_eyes_describing_the_suffering_\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:39:43","slug":"church_times_fgm_expert_brings_tears_to_meps_eyes_describing_the_suffering_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47114","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) FGM expert brings tears to MEPs\u2019 eyes describing the suffering in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the European Parliament listened in tears on Wednesday as this year&#8217;s winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Dr Denis Mukwege, outlined a catalogue of sexual violence and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mukwege was presented with the award &#8220;in recognition of his on-going efforts to restore the physical and psychological integrity of thousands of women and girls who are victims of sexual abuse by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has spent the past 15 years working with women who are the victims of a planned and continuing campaign of sexual violence. He is now seen as a leading international expert in repairing women&#8217;s mutilated reproductive organs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/28-november\/news\/world\/fgm-expert-brings-tears-to-meps-eyes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the European Parliament listened in tears on Wednesday as this year&#8217;s winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Dr Denis Mukwege, outlined a catalogue of sexual violence and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47114\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,143,168,553,110,34,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-republic-of-congo","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}