Democratic Republic of the Congo
La coordination des associations féminines pour le développement de Walikale a dénoncé, ce dimanche 3 juillet, la situation dramatique dans la quelle vit un grand nombre des femmes victimes des violences sexuelle dans ce territoire du…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Remarks Maria Otero Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC June 30, 2011 First, thank you for including me on today’s panel. I commend the Wilson Center and International Crisis Group for taking on this difficult and…
Chad + 1 more
Protracted displacement is a grim reality for millions of Sudanese civilians caught on the front lines of the interconnected civil wars that have wracked Sudan since its independence in 1956. Through the first civil war (1956–1972), second…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa hosted a policy advisory group seminar in Cape Town on 19 and 20 April 2010 on the theme “Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the…
Côte d'Ivoire + 4 more
“The collective actions of the people of North Africa and the Middle East have reaffirmed the importance and universality of human rights in a way we could not have dreamed of on 1 January this year,”…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denis Mukwege and his staff have treated more than 30,000 women, most of them survivors of sexual assaults, since he opened the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999. A woman arrived at the…
Burundi
Bujumbura, le 29 Juin 2011 : Le Coordonateur National de la Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs, M. Gaspard Kabura a présenté vendredi dernier à la Ministre burundaise de la Solidarité Nationale, des Droits…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
La majorité des auteurs des violences sexuelles sont parfois condamnés à 3 ou 6 mois, alors que la loi prévoit 5 ans au minimum. C’est ce qui ressort du rapport présenté mardi 28 juin au ministère…
Burundi
Mercredi, 29 Juin 2011 07:16 Malgré que le Burundi soit sorti de la guerre, le pays, en 2005, continuait à afficher un bilan terrifiant en termes de violence armée civile et de non-respect…
Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 more
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today exhorted States to take effective legislative, administrative and judicial measures to prevent torture, calling the practice a brutal attempt to destroy a victim's sense of dignity and sense of human worth that…
