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Protect Women and Girls in DR Congo’s Prisons

Authored by: Carine Kaneza Nantulya

Categories: Human Rights
Sub-Categories: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2024
Citation: Nantulya, Carine Kaneza. 2024. "Protect Women and Girls in DR Congo’s Prisons." Human Rights Watch, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/20/protect-women-and-girls-dr-congos-prisons

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Executive Summary

A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund, the UN agency tasked with improving reproductive and maternal health, found that 268 out of the 348 women held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Makala prison – nearly 80 percent – were victims of rape and other sexual violence when an attempted prison break earlier this month turned deadly. The report, seen by Human Rights Watch and first reported on by Reuters, notes that 17 of the survivors of sexual violence were younger than 19.