Kinshasa: The number of reported victims of a mass rape by gunmen in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen by about 70 to as many as 170, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. Congo said the mass rape, the largest reported in the turbulent central African country in nearly a year, may have been perpetrated by former rebels that the government had been trying to integrate into the national...
03:01 AM, Jun 25, 2011
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11:12 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Dakar: The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released shows that it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour. That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations. Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at...
08:34 AM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: Low coviction rate and lack of better policing are two major reasons for rape cases being reported at an alarming frenquency in Delhi, say experts. Citing rape to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the country, they say it takes an enormous amount of time to bring to book the guilty. According to police records, over 400 rape cases have been reported in the capital in...
11:27 PM, Dec 16, 2010
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