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Child marriage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the eighteenth highest in the world. [18] In a child marriage, one or both parties are under the age of eighteen years old. [19] In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 37% of girls are married before they turn eighteen, and 10% of girls are married before age fifteen. [18]
According to articles of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sexual violence is defined and criminalized as a form of gender-based violence and gender discrimination (article 14); a cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment (article 16); a crime against humanity (article 15); and a violation of an individual's right to peace ...
Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo The UN says at least 2,900 people were killed during the fighting, with 2,000 bodies buried and another 900 still in the city's morgues.
It became the Department of Women's Affairs in 1983, and was kept as the Department of Women's Affairs in the February 1985 Executive Council. In 1987 it was detached from the government, as the MPR Executive Secretariat with responsibility for gender. [1] In 1990 a Ministry for Gender was established. In 1992, it became the General Secretariat ...
More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison this month, an internal U.N. report reviewed by ...
Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. ... according to Congo’s government and United Nations experts. Rwanda has denied such support.
History of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2 C, 1 P) M. Ministers for women's affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4 P) R.
Pages in category "Women's rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .