Témoignages sur les violences sexuelles en cours au Kivu

Contibution to mobilization against sexual violences in Kivu.
As she was invited to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in may, DRC-based journalist Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu said that The rapes are targeted and intentional, and are meant to remove the people from their mineral-rich land through fear, shame, violence, and the intentional spread of HIV throughout entire families and villages.

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[marinelefebvre]

Fin juin, le gouvernement américain a annoncé un plan Obama pour la RD Congo en

appui à la campagne de lutte contre les violences sexuelles. Il doit s'articuler autour de trois axes : amé liorer l'accès des victimes aux soins et aux traitements, combattre l'impunité via l'appui à la réforme et au renforcement du système judiciaire et

promouvoir la sensibilisation des commu nautés contre les violences sexuelles.

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[marinelefebvre]

STILL GOING ON : KINSHASA, 3 June (IRIN) - There has been a marked increase in the number

of rape cases being recorded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

(DRC) province of South Kivu, where Rwandan Hutu militia attacks against

civilians have intensified, according to civil and humanitarian officials.