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48 women raped every hour in Congo, new study shows, far surpassing previous estimates
The Canadian Press ^ | May 11, 2011 | Rukmini CallimacHi,
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.
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 Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gender-based violence, said the rate could be even higher. The source of the data, she noted, is a survey that was conducted through face-to-face interviews, and people are not always forthcoming about the violence they have suffered when talking to strangers.
"The numbers are astounding," she said.
Congo — a nation of 70 million people that is equal in size to Western Europe — has been plagued by decades of war. Its vast forests are rife with militias that have systematically used rape to destroy communities.
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God damn Sarah Palin and George Bush!
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Must be those racist tea baggers and red necks.
I blame Bachmann and Rand Paul for this for sure.
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Must be those racist tea baggers and red necks.
I blame Bachmann and Rand Paul for this for sure.
what's wrong with you?
You're using this as a means to push the republican party? Dude this is far bigger than your little rand paul/bachmann nonsense. I think I heard last year that a large majority of the women there between the ages of 5-90 have the area between their vaginas and anus ripped apart from being raped so much.
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The UN says there's nothing to see here. Please feign ignorance as the Human Rights Council (with members Libya, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and so on) continues bashing the USA and Israel.
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The UN says there's nothing to see here. Please feign ignorance as the Human Rights Council (with members Libya, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and so on) continues bashing the USA and Israel.
Oh come on, the U.N. has done and does a great job of institutionalizing genocide and human rights abuses. A fine job indeed.
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Did you guys hear about the peace corp testimony today?