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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 ...
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 ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (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 ...
The recent sharp escalation in fighting between Congolese troops and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 has further destabilised Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-torn eastern provinces.
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]
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.
UN troops in the Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Central African Republic have been accused of sexual abuse of women, men, and often children. [8]After a process concluding in 2005, UN employees were accused of sexual abuse of a "significant number" of women and girls, many under 18 and some as young as 13, in the DRC. [9]
Powerful gangs, armed with weapons largely trafficked from the United States, have united in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince under a common alliance. They control 85% of the city, according to the U.N.