The methodical violence against women has become one the most, if not the most important and detrimental issues across the globe. Violence against women involves a multitude of horrendous actions that range from rape and forced marriage, to genital mutilation (FGM) and feminicide. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) affects an unbelievable amount of women every year, according to the World Health Organization, one-third of the world’s women (translated to an estimated 1.140 billion individuals) have been subjected to this ongoing epidemic. This violation of human rights is most prominent in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Violence against women encompasses the lives of hundreds of thousands throughout the D.R.C, with 420,000
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Although the crisis is young, the roots of the issue can be traced back to the early 1960s. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly known as Zaire, when it was under the rule of President Mobutu Seko who came into power shortly after the D.R.C gained independence in 1960. Seko is credited with the beginnings of “rape culture” in the D.R.C, as he promoted sexual abuse as a method of torture. Seko remained in power until 1995, when Laurent Kabila (the frontman of A.D.F.L) sparked a rebellion against Seko’s regime, commencing the First Congo War. Soon after, the génocidaires relocated from Rwanda bringing high altitudes of crime and violence into the eastern province of the D.R.C, Kivu. According to Wilhelmine Ntakebuka, an activist for the prevention of sexual violence in the Congo, the number of rapes began to skyrocket in the mid-1990’s, which coincides with the period of time that militiamen from Rwanda, the Hutu, migrated into eastern …show more content…
Violence against women during 1998 and 2006 continued to escalate, when a confrontation between the Congolese government and the Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda sparked yet another civil conflict in the eastern province of Kivu in the D. R. C. The governmental issues at hand aided the increasing instability of the country, which eventually resulted in the creation of an armed rebel group called M23. M23 continues to wreak havoc over Kivu and other regions of the D. R. C, and continuously grows stronger as it is supported by the Rwandan and Ugandan governments. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had an endless stream of conflict, resulting from inner and outer governmental issues that seemingly correlate with a variety political movements. These hostilities facilitate different ethnic groups, such as the Hutus and the Tutsi’s, in the ongoing terrorization of the D. R. C’s female population without fear of punishment or retribution. The animosity between such groups, and the woman-hating environment has existed since the very beginning of political conflict, and will remain until the D. R. C receives aid from international communities and begins to implement steps towards the salvation of this misogynist
Although the crisis is young, the roots of the issue can be traced back to the early 1960s. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly known as Zaire, when it was under the rule of President Mobutu Seko who came into power shortly after the D.R.C gained independence in 1960. Seko is credited with the beginnings of “rape culture” in the D.R.C, as he promoted sexual abuse as a method of torture. Seko remained in power until 1995, when Laurent Kabila (the frontman of A.D.F.L) sparked a rebellion against Seko’s regime, commencing the First Congo War. Soon after, the génocidaires relocated from Rwanda bringing high altitudes of crime and violence into the eastern province of the D.R.C, Kivu. According to Wilhelmine Ntakebuka, an activist for the prevention of sexual violence in the Congo, the number of rapes began to skyrocket in the mid-1990’s, which coincides with the period of time that militiamen from Rwanda, the Hutu, migrated into eastern …show more content…
Violence against women during 1998 and 2006 continued to escalate, when a confrontation between the Congolese government and the Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda sparked yet another civil conflict in the eastern province of Kivu in the D. R. C. The governmental issues at hand aided the increasing instability of the country, which eventually resulted in the creation of an armed rebel group called M23. M23 continues to wreak havoc over Kivu and other regions of the D. R. C, and continuously grows stronger as it is supported by the Rwandan and Ugandan governments. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had an endless stream of conflict, resulting from inner and outer governmental issues that seemingly correlate with a variety political movements. These hostilities facilitate different ethnic groups, such as the Hutus and the Tutsi’s, in the ongoing terrorization of the D. R. C’s female population without fear of punishment or retribution. The animosity between such groups, and the woman-hating environment has existed since the very beginning of political conflict, and will remain until the D. R. C receives aid from international communities and begins to implement steps towards the salvation of this misogynist