UN warned of ongoing abuses against women in DRC
Julienne Lusenge says the situation in DR Congo is increasingly dire and 鈥渕others feed their children with soil鈥�.
Julienne Lusenge is the president of a Congolese women's rights group, Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development (SOFEPADI). Her organisation works in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive areas of Bunia, Beni, Goma and Kinshasa promoting and defending the rights of women and girls.
Last week she gave the United Nations Security Council an account of the situation on the ground and how it affects women and girls. Her account of how women are being kidnapped and raped almost on a daily basis was harrowing.
She told Newsday resolutions had been made by the UN to end the violence 鈥渂ut we didn鈥檛 see the result of those resolutions. In the past they call DRC the capital of rape, but till now no action is done to stop that because they don鈥檛 give justice for Congolese women鈥�.
(Picture: Displaced women gather for a discussion on kidnappings and sexual assaults committed by armed men around the internally displaced persons camp of Bijombo, South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on October 9, 2020. Credit: ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)
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