Pygmy women in tattered sarongs squatted around several ... Pygmy populations across the Congo Basin suffer "appalling socio-economic conditions and the lack of civil and land rights," according ...

Refugees in Igne, Republic of Congo founded an agricultural cooperative to transform small land plots into thriving farms. Credit: Lisungi / World Bank. The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women ...

Rape has almost always been a part of armed conflict, but in Congo’s civil wars, it was a strategy. At least 200,000 Congolese women and children were raped during the seven-year conflict ...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has witnessed a renewed spike in atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Ituri ... as young as 4 and pregnant women for machete and gunshot ...

Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... But few of the women managed to get away. A total of 132 female ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, celebrated International Women's Day 2025 with great enthusiasm under the leadership of Col Rajesh W Adhau, an official statement read. The event highlighted the ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member and partner organisations (see signatories below) are alerting about the terrible wave of sexual violence against women in the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian ... rounded up 70 Christians and beheaded them – in a church. Women are under threat too. According to the U.N., 895 cases of rape were reported ...