Prepared by Juliet Kerr with contributions from Dr Patrick Ball on behalf of the MONUSCO-Sexual Violence Unit, December 2010.
What exists today in the DRC is a weakened comprehension of the dynamics of sexual violence. This derives from the numerous often unfounded statistics recycled by the media which fail to provide rigorous knowledge about the population-level patterns of abuse.
Advocacy Note: The Limits Analysing Sexual Violence Data in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- 16 May 2011
- Sexual Violence
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