Denis Mukwege is a medic based in the DRC, and he and his staff have helped thousands of victims abused in its prolonged and bloody wars.
Vaclav Havel, the playwright who wove theatre into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, has died.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech president Vaclav Havel joined forces in urging China to free jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
When Vaclav Havel went from being a dissident to a president, "the arc of my story was completed in a way that was almost like a fairytale", he notes.
