Rape in the DRC: what recognition and legal redress for female victims?

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Difficult access to justice for women victims of rape in the DRC Difficult access to justice for women victims of rape © RFI / Habibou Bangré

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

2 min

For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been the scene of numerous deadly conflicts.

Fighting which is at the origin of massive population displacements, millions of deaths and, as so often in situations of armed conflict, thousands of women victims of sexual violence. 

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According to the latest report from Médecins Sans Frontières, a well-established NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, nearly 11,000 women victims of sexual violence were treated in one of the health centers supported by MSF in 2020. A figure well below reality as it is so difficult for the survivors to break the silence out of shame or fear of reprisals.

A tragedy that has long-term consequences for these women which can lead them to exclusion and the loss of their livelihood.

How to support them in their fight for justice?

What measures put in place by the Congolese state?  

With :

Tatiana Mukanire Bandalire

, national coordinator of the

.

Author of

Chantal Yelu Mulop

, Special Advisor to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, in charge of Youth and the fight against violence against women.

Musical programming: 

► My body is not a weapon

- The strong girls & Timbuktu 

► I play the kora - Les Amazones 

Further information:

► Tatiana Mukanire 

will be received at Unesco on November 25, 2021 as part of the international day against violence against women.

A conference to follow live on the UNESCO site.

► On November 26, 2021 at 6:00 p.m., meeting open to the public with

at

still within the framework of the international day against violence against women.

All the information can be

For further : 

►

The

on RFI dedicated to Dr Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner

►

broadcasts

at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu: treating women's bodies and providing psychosocial support to women victims of sexual violence 

► All the articles and programs devoted to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the RFI website 

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