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DR Congo: When Will the Rape of Women and Girls End?

Details: April 21, 2011

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Safe World's DR Congo correspondent, Mugisho, reports:

'The violators are people who are well known by the leaders, and are often also known to the victims.

This gives shame to the whole nation, the families, and the survivors of rape.

It is in this context that very recently on March 31, 2011 – again in South Kivu, that the village of Kikoze was a theatre of rape, of women and girls...

Negative Impact of Culture in DR Congo

Details: March 28, 2011

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Armed groups and even government soldiers, attack local communities, loot, rape, and kidnap women and children – making them work as sexual slaves in the bush where they hide.

The Degradation of Children in DR Congo

Details: March 5, 2011

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"With our very limited means, we try to do something, though little.
We are now paying school fees for four children, two of them were street children and the other two were born from rape."
COFAPRI - Safe World Field Partner in DR Congo.