News stories by Zainab Bangura

  1. OP-ED: Act Now, Act Big to End Sexual Violence in DRC

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 06 (IPS) - Imagine an orphanage where over 300 children born out of rape have been abandoned because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual violence. Imagine a town where, in the last year, 11 infants between the ages of 6 months and 1 year, and 59 small children from 1 to 3 years old, have been raped.

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