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• Rape slur: Army officers recalled from Congo. Times of India, 19 March 2008. In a major embarrassment to India's proud peacekeeping record, three army officers have been recalled from their posting with the Indian contingent deployed in Congo, as part of the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUC) there, for allegedly indulging in "misconduct and inappropriate behaviour".
• DRC: "Majority of rapists go unpunished". IRIN News, 18 March 2008. Sexual violence against women is rampant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but the majority of perpetrators, especially in "no-law" zones, go unpunished, according to a UN independent human rights expert.
• Congo women - violence in war and in peace. Pambazuka News, 12 March 2008. Marie Claire Faray-kele argues that even though the bodies of Congolese women were used as battlefields in the DRC war, they are now being excluded from peace process.
  
• Congolese women's campaign against sexual violence in the DRC gets underway. ReliefWeb, 26 February 2008. Rights & Democracy and the Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations are proud to support the Congolese Women's Campaign Against Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
  
• "Silence" gives voice to Congo's rape victims. Reuters, 23 January 2008. PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - If one of the roles of documentary film is to shock, educate and move people to action, then Lisa F. Jackson's "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" is more than doing its job.
  
• East Congo violence fuels rape spree by fighters. Reuters Africa, 03 January 2008.

• Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural, including the Right to Development. Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Addendum: Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A/HRC/7/6/Add.4. Yakin Ertürk, 28 February 2008
• Documentary: Fighting the Silence, IFP Productions, 2007
• UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Democratic Republic of Congo Country Visit Report, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: July 2007
• UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Democratic Republic of Congo Country Visit Report, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ghana July 2007
• Meeting Needs for Reproductive Health Services in Post-Conflict Environments: CARE's Family Planning Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 2007
• Ending Violence Against Women in Eastern Congo: Preparing Men to Advocate for Women’s Rights, Women for Women International, 2007
• What Future? Street Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, 2006
• Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Alternative report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 36th session, African Association for the Defence of Human Rights and OMCT, 2006.
• Beyond Victimhood: Women's Peacebuilding In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, By International Crisis Group, 2006
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mass Rape - Time for Remedies, Amnesty International AFR 62/018/2004, 2004
• I have no joy, no peace of mind": Medical, Psychosocial and Economic Consequences of Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-Holland, 2004
• Sexual Terrorism: Rape as a Weapon of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, US Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Democracy Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, 2004
• Congo: Rape as a Weapon of War, Libert's online: Issue 9, 2003,
• "The war within the war: sexual violence against women and girls in Eastern Congo". Human Rights Watch, 2002
• Assessment of Reproductive Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo, JSI Research and Training Institute on behalf of the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, 2002

• Fistula and traumatic genital injury from sexual violence in a conflict setting in Eastern Congo: case studies. Longombe AO, Claude KM, Ruminjo J. Reprod Health Matters; 16(31): 132-41. 2008
• Hell on Earth - Systematic Rape in Eastern Congo, Stefan Kirchner, The Journal Of Humanitarian Assistance, August 6, 2007
• Challenge in Aid to Rape Victims: the Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bosmans M, Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 4 No. 1, February 2007
• Salignon, Cabrol et.al., Health and war in Congo-Brazzaville, Lancet 356 (9243), 2000 (Quick registration required)

• Documentary Film “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”. Lisa F Jackson, 2007

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