Here’s a roundup of gender issues going down this week:
In Ghana, around 200 Liberian women refugees were arrested at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement for protesting against their forced return to Liberia by stripping themselves naked. The UNHCR is planning to send the refugees back with a paltry amount of $100. The women are asking for $1000 and the option to relocate to another country.
The majority of rapists in the Democratic Republic of Congo go unpunished, according to Titinga Frederic Pacere, the UN Human Rights Council’s independent expert on human rights in the DRC. Between 2005 and 2007, a staggering 14 200 rape cases were reported, yet only 287 of those cases were taken to court. The threat of rape lingers as a daily threat and a systemic war crime in the DRC.
And finally – some positive news this week – Senate Democratic representatives in the Virginian Assembly persuaded House Republicans to drop an amendment that would have taken $200 000 of funding away from Planned Parenthood.
image: A young woman, a rape survivor, waits to give birth at the Sake Health center in Goma, East Congo in January 2006.
image credit: here
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