Gender & SGBV
HumAngle’s Gender Desk tracks incidents of gender-based violence. It also reports policy gaps as they affect gender issues. It focuses on GBV issues in conflict areas, displacement camps, other large-scale conflict situations, and post-conflict circumstances (e.g. experiences of widows). It also looks at the issues of sex for food and rape as a weapon of war.
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DR Congo Official Calls For Probe Into Allegations Of Sexual Abuse By Ebola Ripost Team
Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Director-General of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedical (National Institute of…
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DR Congo: Female Victims Of Sexual Violence Protest Over Trauma, Abandonment
Hundreds of women who have been victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo came out to protest…
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DR Congo Records Drop In Rape Cases
The Democratic Republic of Congo, which has one of the highest rates of rape of women in the world registered…
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Families, Institutions Hindering Fight Against Sexual Violence – Investigation
Family disposition, law enforcement and institutional structures as well as ignorance are among factors hindering the campaign against Sexual and…
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Sex For Survival: How Officials Use Underage IDP Girls As Objects Of Pleasure
Young Aisha* has had more than her fair share of misfortunes. She was only six years old when the Boko…
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Trial Of 4 Suspected Rapists Attracts Hundreds In Kinshasa
Hundreds of people trooped out on Monday at the Matete High Court, Kinshasa, to witness the trial of four individuals…
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Fact-Check: No, These Are Not Pictures of a Pregnant, Nursing Girl From Jos
Two pictures of young girls in which one of them appears pregnant and the other is holding a baby above…
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40 Years Old Mother Loses Marriage Seeking Justice For Violated Daughter
Ifeyinwa Ezukamma, a 40-year-old mother of five, has been sacked from her matrimonial home by her husband’s family because she…
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Mother Of 8 Narrates Life Of Abuse In Forced Early Marriage
Forced to marry at the age of 13, Chiamaka Okechi, 27, and a mother of eight, has remained a victim…
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NAPTIP Arrests Kano Teacher For Sodomising Underage Boys
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested a 35-year-old teacher and resident of Unguwar…
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