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48 women raped every hour in Congo, study finds
A new study released on Wednesday shows that 1,152 women are raped every day in the African nation of Congo, a rate equal to 48 per hour.That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations.Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who spec...
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UN says about 500 were victims of Congo rapes
Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August, demonstrating that both rebel militias and government troops used sexual violence as a weapon, two senior United Nations officials said Tuesday.Since United Nations officials first disclosed late last month that large numbers of women had been gang-raped, the number reported ha...
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48 women raped every hour in Congo, study finds
A new study released on Wednesday shows that 1,152 women are raped every day in the African nation of Congo, a rate equal to 48 per hour.That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations.Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who spec...
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UN says about 500 were victims of Congo rapes
Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August, demonstrating that both rebel militias and government troops used sexual violence as a weapon, two senior United Nations officials said Tuesday.Since United Nations officials first disclosed late last month that large numbers of women had been gang-raped, the number reported ha...
