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25 000.

C'est le nombre annuel de cas de viols et de violences sexuelles faites aux femmes et aux enfants en République Démocratique du Congo.

Source : http://www.vday.org

"Faced with an estimated 25,000 cases of rape and other sexual violence against women and children reported per year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UN Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland recently described the plague of sexual violence that has prevailed in the country's eastern provinces for nearly a decade, as a "cancer that seems out of control". The effects of sexual violence are catastrophic, rending the bonds of family, community, and society. Despite the recognition that rape can constitute a crime against humanity -- a charge second in gravity only to genocide -- the problem continues unabated today in too many environments like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Darfur, where the mere act of foraging for wood or fetching drinking water exposes hundreds of thousands of women and girls to grave danger, and where systematic rape -- and near-total impunity - continue to define the crises. "