Paus komt nog terug op Afrika. Condition critical, Pilatus: What do you wish for? MSF

The penalties of rape

Rejected by their husbands or chased away by their families, this is what often happens to women victims of rape in the Kivus. Often, these women will not perceive themselves as victims, but believe they are guilty. As for the rapists, they do encounter much risk. Impunity reigns and justice does not exist.



















living a war for over 15 years. The loss of loved ones, violence and having to flee their homes have shaped their daily lives. But there is hope in the future. These women speak out and tell what their wishes are for their futures.


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Critical is to give a voice to the people of Eastern Congo and we need to make sure as many people as possible are listening to what they have to say.





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Critical, stating what you wish for them for their future.

March 11, 2009
Interview: MSF's expulsion leaves health care vacuum for 100,000 in Kalma Camp, Darfur

On March 4 and 5, the Holland, then France, sections of MSF were expelled from Darfur by the Sudanese government.
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“We had started to prepare for a mass vaccination campaign that was going to cover around 80,000 people. The Ministry of Health, however, only confirmed it was meningitis the day before our expulsion. So right now there is no treatment available in the camp, no one to refer patients to the hospital in Nyala, and no mass vaccination. It means that people may die.”

What other concerns do you have for the people of Kalma Camp?
“Although the number of sexual violence and rape patients we saw in the clinic had reduced over time, we were still seeing up to six patients a month. We used to hear from the community that there were more cases than those we saw in the clinic but a lot of women were afraid of coming in. Sexual violence is still happening in Kalma on a regular basis. It happens when women attempt to leave the camp to collect firewood or tend fields in the land around the camp.

“But if people don’t leave the camp to collect firewood or grow crops, then there’s no dinner. One woman told me that if her husband left the camp to collect firewood he would be killed, but if she went, she would only run the risk of being raped. This is life for women in Kalma. It’s a harsh reality.

“Every day we had a woman in a complicated labour or a child born with a life-threatening complication - and every day in the clinic the staff would perform small miracles.

“We didn’t do surgery in the camp, but when necessary we would transfer emergencies to the hospital in Nyala, where we had an MSF doctor following up every case. Now that MSF has gone, women will somehow have to make their own way to the hospital in Nyala, and that’s really dangerous. I fear that, now we’re not there, these women and children will suffer.”