Surging conflict in DRCongo drives sexual assault against displaced women

(25 Oct 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

++PLEASE NOTE IDENTITY OF INTERVIEWED RAPE SURVIVORS WITHHELD FOR SAFETY REASONS++

ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 23 August 2023 
1. Wide of internally displaced persons camp 
2. People walking between shelters
3. Close of woman's feet as she walks through camp
4. Close of woman's hands UPSOUND (Swahili) 42-year-old rape survivor, name withheld and face not shown to protect identity:
"He came and entered the house around midnight. He took my mouth and when I tried to scream, he told me that if I did, he would kill me. When he finished, he said to me: 'You don't know me, but I know you very well. If you ever tell anyone about this, I'll come back here and kill you.'"
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 30 September 2023 
5. People walking through camp
6. Cooking utensils inside shelter
7. Close of people around bowl of food   
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 23 August 2023 
8. Rape survivor, filmed from behind to safeguard her identity, sitting in aid center
9. Close of woman's feet UPSOUND (Swahili) Rape survivor, name withheld and face not shown to protect identity:
"When I'm here in the camp, I'm afraid to see my children go out. Sometimes I refuse to let them go out so they won't be raped. I hid them when I was raped because I was afraid. I knew it wasn't right for my children to know that their mother had been raped, and I was forbidden to tell anyone.” 
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 30 September 2023 
10. People walking in front of shelters in camp  
11. Various of interior of shelter
12. Wide of displaced persons camp, hill behind
13. Plantation next to camp
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 23 August 2023 
14. Celine Luanda, community women's outreach worker, talking to women in IDP camp   
15. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Celine Luanda, community women's outreach worker:
"People are being raped because most of them are raped when they go to the fields to fetch firewood, sometimes it's street children or soldiers who rape them. So now we're here to raise awareness, because once someone is a victim, she can easily go to the health centre." 
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo – 24 August 2023 
16. Rebecca Kihiu, regional sexual violence activity manager for Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF - also known as Doctors Without Borders), walking
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Kihiu, MSF’s regional sexual violence activity manager:
"They don't have nothing much to protect themselves, but they will feel like if we go in a group, they think they are protected. But what happens, even when they go in the group, they don't go to one place, you know, like not all of them will go to one place. Sometimes when they arrive to the bush, they'll disperse because they want to get, as you know, as many firewood as possible."
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - 30 September 2023 
18. Close of crops
19. Wide of traffic on country road
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past year in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fighting by more than 130 armed groups.

As drawn-out conflicts continue to spiral, instances of sexual violence by armed men against displaced women, many living in camps, are climbing rapidly, according to French aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors without Borders).
And each night they fear for their safety.

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