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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 ...
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...
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.
The rebels temporarily took over Goma in 2012 and resurfaced in late 2021, with increasing support from Rwanda, according to Congo’s government and United Nations experts. Rwanda has denied such ...
Article 444 of the Congo Family Code states that a wife "owes her obedience to her husband". [38] Marital rape is not considered an offense in the DRC. [5] Similar laws and attitudes are prevalent in countries involved in the DRC conflict. [38] In Zimbabwe one in four women report having experienced sexual violence at the hands of their ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) has one of the highest incidences of poverty in the world. And unfortunately it is still going on. DRC is #1 out of 11 top poor countries in the world (2014) At a rate of 71.34, its incidence of poverty is “extremely high”, even in comparison with other central African countries.
The trend underscores the disproportionate consequences for women and girls in the region's perpetual state of war. 'I wanted to scream': Growing conflict in Congo drives sexual assault against ...
Mwange was aware of the need to improve women's livelihoods, which would subsequently eradicate child labour. Further, women were affected by sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace. [ 2 ] Because of this, Mwange began a grassroots movement to fight inequality and sexual harassment in mines.