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Victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo must benefit from their right to remedy and reparations, a United Nations panel of experts has recommended.
Dr. Denis Mukwege co-founded and runs Panzi hospital, a General Referral hospital in Bukavu, in the Eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A high level panel convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for more support for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo are starting to fight back, pressing for justice as a fundamental human right in the face of appalling sexual violence. For years now, rape has been used as a tactic of war in the east of the DRC where prosecutions are difficult to achieve.