Ending - the Indifference!

Ending the Indifference! Sexual Violence during the 1993–2003 Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The information on the sexual violence cases contained in this booklet comes from data that was gathered in the scope of the mapping exercise on violations of human rights committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003, set up by the Office of the Unit. [...] 2 Message froM the special rapporteur on the rights of WoMen in africa “Every woman shall have the right to dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition and protection of her human and legal rights,” states paragraph 1 of Article 3 in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), dealing with the right to dignity. [...] In a mainly rural country where proliferation of armed groups, the attraction of women are one of the driving forces of the natural resources, the trafficking of arms and economy, in addition to ensuring the food ore, the inability of the Congolese state and the security of the family and the country, the international community to put a halt to the socioeconomic impact of violence against various. [...] According to its Elements of Crimes, rape is defined as follows: The perpetrator invaded the body of a person by conduct resulting in penetration, however slight, of any part of the body of the victim or the perpetrator with a sexual organ or of the anal or genital opening of the victim with any object or any other part of the body. [...] more persons to engage in one or Sexual exploitation of children is also prohibited by the more acts of a sexual nature by Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989, 1990), ratified force, or by threat of force or coer- by the DRC in 1990 and the Optional Protocol to the Con- cion or by taking advantage of a vention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, coercive environment or suc.