Tag Archives: rape
Bemba’s ICC trial postponed
Jean-Pierre Bemba, an anti-Kabila rebel warlord externally backed by Uganda and former Vice President of DRC’s transitional government (17 July 2003 to December 2006), was arrested on 24 May 2008, pursuant to a warrant of arrest delivered by the Pre-Trial … Continue reading
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Sexual violence in DRC in 2009: over 12,000 attacks
Compiled from 2009 Human Rights Report on the DRC by US Department of State, 11 March 2010. **New report just in by Human Rights Watch, 28 March 2010, documenting the massacre of at least 321 civilians and abduction of 250 … Continue reading
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2009 Human Rights Report in DRC released by the US Department of State
On 11 March, the US Department of State released its 2009 Human Rights Report on the DRC, as part of its country reports on Human Rights practices. The report summarizes evidence collected by various organizations to show that mass rape … Continue reading
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Bottom-up and top-down approaches to gender-based violence
The Inter Press Service (IPS) posted an article on April 18 about the responses to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in several central African countries and it has been picked up by many organizations and blogs (e.g. AWID, womensphere, The … Continue reading
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