Sexual Violence

By Zainab Hawa Bangura An adolescent girl is kidnapped from her village in Iraq and she will be sold or given away to ISIL fighters as a sex slave. In a detention centre in Syria a man is sexually assaulted to punish him for…

NEW YORK / KINSHASA (9 April 2014) – Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain very serious concerns, with thousands of victims, in particular in the east of the country, over the past four…

Kisangani, 4 December 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, through its Public Information section, organized, from 25 to 30 November 2013, in Province Oriental’s…

Dungu, 4 December 2013 - Within the framework of a 16-day activism on gender-based violence scheduled from 25 November to 10 December 2013, the Child Protection Section of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic…

Bukavu, 9 April 2013 – In Bukavu, Sud Kivu, the Public Information Office of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized, on 4 April 2013, a one-day training workshop for journalists…

Bunia, 12 May 2013 – Eighty-four police officers, including two women, underwent five weeks of training in the Ituri district, province Orientale, on gender-based sexual violence. The participants who hailed from the four…

Goma, 20 March 2013 – On 18 March, as part of the women's month activities, the Gender and Public Information divisions of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)…

Goma, 23 March 2013 – As part of the joint project on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in the Nord and Sud Kivu provinces faced with countless cases of human rights violations, mainly sexual violence, the Joint Human…

Kisangani, 20 March 2013 – The office of the prosecutor of the high court of Kisangani held two-day reflections, 11 - 12 March 2013, to harmonize the different interventions of the actors involved in the fight against sexual…

Matadi, 13 March 2013 – The United Nations joint office in Bas-Congo province, through the Human Rights section, organized a conference-debate to make an assessment of sexual violence in the province as well as implementation…