UN calls rape a 'cancer' in Congo
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UNITED NATIONS -- A senior UN official yesterday called sexual abuse a ``cancer" in the Democratic Republic of Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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An inquiry upholds claims that UN peacekeepers working in DR Congo sexually abused young girls and women.
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The rights group Amnesty International has issued a scathing report on Nigeria, calling the rape of women by its security forces &quot;endemic&quot; while the government fails to bring the attackers to justice.
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KHARTOUM : The Sudanese government has acknowledged for the first time that its militia allies in Darfur have committed serious human rights abuses, including rape, and given the United Nations a list of 30 suspects, Khartoum dailies said.
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Atrocities are occurring daily in Sudan's Darfur region and rape and pillage directed against civilians are at "a horrific level," United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said on Wednesday.
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An inquiry confirms claims that UN peacekeepers working in DR Congo sexually abused young girls and women.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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GOMA, Congo  - Intense fighting between government and militia forces in eastern Congo has led to a surge in rape by fighters from all sides, women and doctors say.
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Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday &#151; International Women's Day.
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Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team said on Monday.
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Rape of women and girls and official harassment are still widespread in Sudan's western Darfur region, a senior United Nations official said, insisting that the government in Khartoum was not doing enough to protect displaced people.
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United Nations, Nov 23 (PTI) The United Nations is investigating about 150 cases of sexual abuse, including pedophilia, rape and prostitution, against its peacekeepers in the Congo, a top official said.
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The kidnapping and torture of  children by a Uganda religious sect was high on the list of a  new United Nations appeal Thursday for the world's forgotten  tragedies.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 30 -- Nearly 180 soldiers, civilians and police officers in U.N. peacekeeping missions have been targeted for disciplinary action for sexual abuse since the beginning of 2004, the chief U.N. spokesman said Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff members and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with some evidence recorded on videotape, a senior UN official said yesterday. The accusations include pedophilia and rape, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary general in the peacekeeping department. Lute said that there ...
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.