Category Archive for : ‘CONGO’

Manhattan-based Human Rights Watch said that militiamen and renegade soldiers have raped and beaten tens of thousands of women and young girls in eastern Congo, and nearly all the crimes have gone unpunished by the country’s broken judicial system.  Hundreds of new rapes are reported every week, but only 10 soldiers and militants have been convicted of the crimes since the end of the country’s devastating five-year war in 2002.

The United Nations released a report on the sex abuse by its peacekeepers that recommended withholding salaries of the guilty

The Presbyterian Church (USA) will appoint a committee to investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse of missionary children in Africa between the 1950s and 1980s.  The new panel’s first task will be to look at reports of abuse at missionary boarding schools in Egypt and Cameroon.  The allegations were initially made to another committee that was formed to report on abuse of missionary children in Congo between the 1940s and 1970s.  Last year, that committee recommended a broader church probe into charges of abuse against missionary children.

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