Congo is world's rape capital: UN

Published: 1:14PM Wednesday April 28, 2010 Source: ONE News

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Top UN official Margot Wallstrom has called on the Security Council to help end the horrors that women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have to face.

Calling DR Congo the "rape capital of the world", Wallstrom said that women continue to suffer sexual violence "not because the law is inadequate to protect them, but because it is inadequately enforced".

Her remarks come after her recent visit to the DRC.

The UN refugee agency UNHRC says 14 women are sexually assaulted every day on average in DRC.

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