Telegraph: There are 259 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 and 50 of them are organisations.
The names of the nominees and who nominated them are kept secret for 50 years according to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation but here are the likely contenders:
He is one of the world’s leading experts on how to repair internal physical damage caused by gang rape.
He and his colleagues have treated more than 30,000 rape victims.
Last year he gave a speech at the United Nations denouncing mass rape in the Congo and criticising the international community for failing to act.
A month later four armed men attacked his home in an apparent assassination attempt. They took his daughters hostage and murdered one of his guards but Mukwege managed to escape the hail of bullets.
Following the attack Dr Mukwege fled to Europe but returned to the Congo earlier this year to continue treating his patients.
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