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Goma, 27 July 2017 - The Deputy Secretary-General Madam Amina J Mohammed has taken a firm resolve to ensure that the women in the MUGUNGA consolidated camp for Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp return home in “Dignity and…

25 July 2017 – The importance of reversing the tragedies of violence, particularly against women and children, and ensuring that women's and girl's voices are heard in all aspects of society are at the core of the second leg…

Goma, North Kivu: The Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflic Ms Zainab Hawa Bangura has been to Heal Africa Hospital to visit cases of women of sexual violence in Goma on the 14th of…

Bunia – 9 August 2016 : 40 students from 8 universities participated in an awareness-raising workshop on the fight against sexual exploitation and abuse organized by MONUSCO’s conduct and discipline unit in partnership with…

Bukavu, 24 November 2015: The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in collaboration with the Bukavu lawyers’ bar and the Group of the Rule of Law/Sexual Violence experts organized on 24 November 2015, a workshop on…

Kalemie, 13 November - The United Nations Joint Human Right Office in Kalemie organized a capacity-building workshop on a forensic guide for dealing with sexual violence attended by twenty medical doctors in Tanganyika…

At the initiative of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, a workshop on capacity-building for the civil society organizations in the area of the protection for the victims and witnesses of sexual violence was held on…

Bunia –17 September 2015: MONUSCO jointly with Gender, Family and Children in Ituri were invited by a local NGO to carry out an evaluation mission on respect for women’s rights, fight against gender-based violence and the…

Bunia: The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in Ituri (BCNUDH) and PARJE “Uhaki safi” organized on 20 August, a conference on “the role of sound forensic evidence in the fight against impunity for sex and gender based…

By Zainab Hawa Bangura An adolescent girl is kidnapped from her village in Iraq and she will be sold or given away to ISIL fighters as a sex slave. In a detention centre in Syria a man is sexually assaulted to punish him for…

NEW YORK / KINSHASA (9 April 2014) – Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain very serious concerns, with thousands of victims, in particular in the east of the country, over the past four…

Kisangani, 4 December 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, through its Public Information section, organized, from 25 to 30 November 2013, in Province Oriental’s…