tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post8173187858295155065..comments2024-02-24T06:10:42.255-08:00Comments on Congo Siasa: How many women have been raped in the Congo?Jason Stearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11454449854081540397noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-28096680917962477212010-10-20T07:17:57.155-07:002010-10-20T07:17:57.155-07:00My goodness, I've found a grown-up and informa...My goodness, I've found a grown-up and informative discussion on the Congo.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853933265347561153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-60506326805352522642010-10-19T06:49:50.315-07:002010-10-19T06:49:50.315-07:00Reponse de Lambert Mende sur cette question:
&quo...Reponse de Lambert Mende sur cette question:<br /><br />"car, a-t-il noté, 4.956 viols répertoriés pour 2010 représentent 13 cas par jour contre 42 dans la pénultième situation, soit une réduction de quelques 70%. Ce qui est un taux presque identique à celui de la France qui alignait 4.412 cas de viols avérés, soit 12 cas par jour répertoriés par le ministère français de l'Intérieur alors que ce pays était encore plus peuplé que la RDC."<br /><br />http://www.afriqueredaction.com/article-ragain-de-violences-dans-l-est-de-la-rdc-la-commission-europeenne-indignee-et-consternee-56136588.html<br /><br />L'important n'est pas de savoir si 200000 ou 500000 femmes ont ete violees (car la bataille des chiffres est presque devenue ideologique), mais comment y mettre un terme. Parce qu'apres le viol en conflit, ce sont les civils qui s'y mettent. Le tort fait durera des dizaines d'annees, si cela ne recommence pas, tout simplement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-91882574289513132292010-10-19T05:35:42.819-07:002010-10-19T05:35:42.819-07:00Questions such as the ones posed on this recent bl...Questions such as the ones posed on this recent blog will be discussed at Congo in Harlem II on Wednesday, October 20th as Dr. Roger Luhiriri (human rights advocate and former fistula doctor at Panzi Hospital), Jocelyn Kelly (gender-based violence Research Coordinator with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative) and Dr. Lee Ann De Reus (President of the Board of Directors of Panzi Hospital Foundation)share insights on their studies and reports of violence against women in the Congo: http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/congo_in_harlem2.htmlfriends of congohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222990540707821263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-77688620881152369432010-10-19T02:59:07.718-07:002010-10-19T02:59:07.718-07:00Hey Jason,
Ref # "One problem is that the st...Hey Jason,<br /><br />Ref # "One problem is that the study asked about forced sexual relations in general, not the rape you observe during armed conflict. Unfortunately, many women in the Congo suffer this kind of domestic abuse. As terrible as it is, conjugal rape is different from military rape."<br /><br />I can see where you are coming from but in some cases, for instance, when one is trying to establish correlational evidence of factors influencing the likelihood of being a victim of rape (domestically or in a war setting) these studies are better placed to provide potential explanatory variables.<br /><br />The other fact is that, in any war setting, the likelihood of any kind of violence, let alone rape, is increased by a substantial proportion. Remember at the end of WWII, Soviet troops raped German women and girls as young as 8 years old beyond any recognition. This led German women to refer to the Soviet Unknown Soldier’s tomb as the “Unknown Rapper’s tomb”.<br /> <br />Here we are talking about a professional army (Red Army troops); what about the asylum of delinquent and criminals that forms what is called the DRC army?<br /><br />This is to say, that on a war setting it is more likely that any conflict will provide a just as bad record of rape and sexual violence cases as the DRC. In that respect, I think, it will be better to compare the war against the non-war situation of male violence to women (rape and sexual violence) in order to establish some background to the behaviour and come up with meaningful ways of tackling the issue.<br /><br />Will be interesting to find out what sexual violence has been defined in the case of Darfur!<br /><br />A suivre ...Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01301460106025447019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-67561781081933170072010-10-18T22:45:56.914-07:002010-10-18T22:45:56.914-07:00When starting the first project on sexual violence...When starting the first project on sexual violence with UNFPA, one of the underlying assumptions was that, like in Southern Africa, chances were big that sexual violence outside of conflict was equally rampant, but unreported. The project was partially conceived in order to make sexual violence in general more unacceptable, even by people from the village.Sam Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12934642964489079325noreply@blogger.com