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A 2006 report by the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights prepared for that committee provides a broad overview of issues confronting women in the DRC in law and in daily life. [ 38 ] In 2015, diaspora figures such as Emmanuel Weyi began to comment on the plight affecting women, and the need to make their progress a key issue in ...
In areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the human rights record has remained considerably poor [when?], and serious abuses have been committed. Unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, rape, and arbitrary arrest and detention by security forces increased during the year, and the transitional government took few actions to punish harsh people.
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 .
The Republic of Congo gained independence from French Equatorial Africa in 1960. It was a one-party Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 civil war and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
According to Human Rights Watch, while many of the perpetrators of sexual violence are militia groups, some of whom have been known to kidnap women and girls and use them as sex slaves, [3] the Congolese army, Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo , is the "single largest group of perpetrators". [3]
The U.S. Department of State's 2021 Human Rights Report found that: [5] While no law specifically prohibits consensual same-sex sexual conduct between adults, individuals engaging in public displays of consensual same-sex sexual conduct, such as kissing, were sometimes subject to prosecution under public indecency provisions, which were rarely ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the Republic of the Congo face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. Both male and female expressions of homosexuality are legal in the Republic of the Congo, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples, with ...
Denis Mukwege (/ m ʊ k ˈ w eɪ ɡ i /; [1] born 1 March 1955) [2] [3] is a Congolese gynecologist [4] and Pentecostal pastor. [5] He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, [5] where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped by armed rebels. [6]