A few weeks ago we wrote about the rape epidemic in the Congo. Unfortunately, a culture of tolerating and even encouraging gang rapes appears in other parts of Africa as well. This week the BBC reports about a South African man who sought out a woman he had raped as a teenager in his home village:
Dumisani Rebombo
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Courtesy Unicef
A conflict from neighboring Rwanda spilled over into the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to a brutal war that claimed 5 million lives. In its wake, Congo’s ineffectual government does little while armed gangs continue to roam eastern Congo, raping women on a scale that…
This is a story from a beautiful place, mostly without laws of any sort, where vast human rights abuses against women defy description. Among other things, it’s a story of why, seventeen years after law school, I finally joined the American Bar Association.
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