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Just when one thinks that raping children to cure AIDS is the end of horrible thoughts, this latest justification for sexual crimes comes along...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=136170552
All the while with some of the most liberal laws on the continent regarding same-sex relationships, but that does not equal police protection:
This comes on the heels of a shocking study to the north in The Congo where 48 women per hour are being raped:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/11/136219082/48-women-raped-every-hour-in-congo-study-finds
The Congo has slightly more people than France and even in the "safe" areas, you are 58x more likely to be raped there than in the United States.
Lots of bad news over the past day, my heart goes out to those living in fear and those that have been harmed, terrible, terrible situation. Hopefully, in time, their governments and police can crack down on the perpetrators and end this crisis. I fear it will only grow worse if there is a disruption in the food supply (which some are predicting).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=136170552
The lesbian activist had been repeatedly stabbed with broken glass, and beaten so severely with chunks of concrete that her teeth had been knocked out.
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The assaults on lesbians have been called "corrective rapes," and are meant to humiliate and punish women who don't fit the norm. Some attackers have reportedly said they believed they could "cure" women of being lesbians by raping them
All the while with some of the most liberal laws on the continent regarding same-sex relationships, but that does not equal police protection:
Same-sex marriage is legal in South Africa and the country has among the most liberal laws on sexual orientation on a continent where many other countries punish gay sex with fines and jail terms.
This comes on the heels of a shocking study to the north in The Congo where 48 women per hour are being raped:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/11/136219082/48-women-raped-every-hour-in-congo-study-finds
The central African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released Wednesday shows it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour.
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Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gender-based violence, said the rate could be even higher.
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Its vast forests are rife with militias that have systematically used rape to destroy communities.
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That means that even in the parts of Congo that are least affected by the war, a woman is 58 times more likely to be raped than a woman in the United States
The Congo has slightly more people than France and even in the "safe" areas, you are 58x more likely to be raped there than in the United States.
Lots of bad news over the past day, my heart goes out to those living in fear and those that have been harmed, terrible, terrible situation. Hopefully, in time, their governments and police can crack down on the perpetrators and end this crisis. I fear it will only grow worse if there is a disruption in the food supply (which some are predicting).