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And, a similar study also conducted in 2010 found that 22% of men (as compared to 30% of women) in eastern Congo reported conflict-related sexual violence. A cross-sectional, population-based study found that one in four men living in the eastern region of the country have been the victims of sexual violence. [22]
Such was the violence directed at and carried out towards women that Human Rights Watch (HRW) described it as "a war within a war". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] HRW has reported that as of March 2013, civil conflict had reignited when the militia, March 23 Movement (M23), resumed hostilities following a ceasefire.
King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline.. Even before his accession to the throne of Belgium in 1865, the future king Leopold II began lobbying leading Belgian politicians to create a colonial empire in the Far East or in Africa, which would expand and enhance Belgian prestige. [2]
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 ...
A hooded man burst into the 42-year-old woman's tent while her children were out searching for food, then raped her in the displacement camp where she had fled war in eastern Congo. Sexual ...
The DRC is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced labor and forced prostitution. The majority of this trafficking is internal, and much of it is perpetrated by armed groups and government forces outside government control within the DRC's unstable ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, has faced decades of overlapping crises with ties stretching back to the Atlantic slave trade, according to humanitarian aid organization Concern ...
Over the course of more than a year, the M23 militias have escalated their attacks in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The M23, a primarily Tutsi rebellion that was defeated in 2013 , resumed their armed struggle at the end of 2021, citing the Congolese government 's failure to protect their interests, which include ...