Tuesday, May 21, 2013
News | Sexual Violence
| Security Council tells UN Mission in DR Congo to step up protection of civilians | |
UN News - December 22, 2008 | |
 | The Security Council today told United Nations peacekeepers in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prioritize the protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel, as the number of attacks on aid workers, some of them deadly, passed 100 since the start of 2008. |
| UN probes India 'abuses' in Congo | |
BBC News - August 13, 2008 | |
 | The UN has found that its peacekeeping troops from India may have engaged in abuse and exploitation while serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply troubled by the findings. |
| 63 Leading NGOs Press for Urgent Implementation of Goma Peace Agreement | |
Human Rights Watch - April 23, 2008 | |
 | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the armed groups, and international parties to the Goma peace agreement should urgently implement the accord and end the horrific suffering of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children facing brutal violence and deadly diseases in eastern Congo, 63 international and Congolese human rights and aid groups said in a joint statement today. |
| Kinshasa: DRC public health workshop to pave way for the future | |
MONUC - April 9, 2008 | |
 | In Kinshasa from 7-12 April 2008, the DRC Ministry of Health will review the annual DRC public health report of 2007, in conjunction with its international partners. During the five day workshop, the state of the DRC public health system will be addressed, challenges will be identified, recommendations will be made and the 2009 health budget will be planned. |
| UN inquiry opens into sexual abuse allegations against peacekeeper | |
UN News - November 19, 2007 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced today that an independent investigation has begun into allegations of violent sexual abuse by a soldier serving with the force in the troubled northeast of the country. |
| Hell on earth - systematic rape in Eastern Congo | |
The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (JHA) - August 10, 2007 | |
Often the women are kidnapped while working in the fields or on the way to fetch water, food or firewood. Often kidnappings occur during raids of villages by armed attackers, who often come in groups of two to five.The victims are taken from the villages into the forest where they are held captive and are gang raped for days or months. | |
| V-DAY, UNICEF call for end to rape, sexual torture against girls in eastern DRC | |
UNICEF - August 7, 2007 | |
 | Highlighting the issue of violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), renowned playwright Eve Ensler has chronicled her first-hand encounters with women in eastern DRC, where sexual violence has become a routine weapon of war. Her account appears in Glamour magazine today. |
| UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu urges protection of women and children | |
UN News - June 19, 2007 | |
 | Having recently returned from a visit to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ambassador Lucy Liu called on the nation's Government to bolster its efforts to protect women and children caught in the continuing violence. |
| Signing of Nairobi pact paves the way for peace in the Great Lakes region | |
Monuc - December 18, 2006 | |
 | With the signing of the Nairobi pact on Friday December 15 2006 by DRC, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, it paves the way for security, stability and development in the region, after years of conflict. |
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