Protect Women and Girls in DR Congo’s Prisons
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.
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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