{"id":1737,"date":"2025-03-26T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:05:25","slug":"rdc-lavancee-du-m23-fragilise-les-civil%c2%b7e%c2%b7s-et-alimente-les-violences-sexuelles-dont-90-des-victimes-sont-des-femmes-et-des-filles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/2025\/03\/26\/rdc-lavancee-du-m23-fragilise-les-civil%c2%b7e%c2%b7s-et-alimente-les-violences-sexuelles-dont-90-des-victimes-sont-des-femmes-et-des-filles\/","title":{"rendered":"The M23\u2019s advance in the DRC undermines civilians and fuels sexual violence, with women and girls representing 90% of victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

The security and humanitarian crisis<\/strong> in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to worsen<\/strong>, with conflict intensifying<\/a> in the east of the country and a surge in displacement. In North Kivu, the M23 armed group has taken control<\/a> of Nyabiondo and now threatens Walikale, a strategic crossroads on National Highway 3. In South Kivu<\/a>, despite a slight withdrawal near Kamanyola, the M23 is pushing forward in the Walungu mining region and may seize Kamituga, which is rich in gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These clashes have triggered\u00a0a mass exodus <\/strong>: since March 5, around around 85,000 people have fled eastern DRC<\/a> for neighboring countries, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Reception facilities are overstretched, leaving\u00a0thousands of women and children without shelter<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0adequate access to water and healthcare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in Tanganyika Province and other areas near Goma, cholera is spreading, exacerbated by a lack of sanitation infrastructure and limited access to safe drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conflict is articularly brutal toward women and girls<\/strong>, qui repr\u00e9sentent 90\u202f%<\/strong> of the victims of conflict-related sexual violence<\/a> . Armed groups, as well as some regular forces, systematically use such abuses to terrorize communities, perpetuating a climate of impunity. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women<\/a> rgently calls on Congolese authorities and the international community to strengthen protection mechanisms and prosecute those responsible for these crimes<\/strong>, considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La crise s\u00e9curitaire et humanitaire en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC) continue de s\u2019aggraver, avec l\u2019intensification du conflit dans l\u2019est du pays et la multiplication des d\u00e9plac\u00e9\u00b7e\u00b7s. Au Nord-Kivu, le groupe arm\u00e9 M23 a pris le contr\u00f4le de Nyabiondo et menace d\u00e9sormais Walikale, un carrefour strat\u00e9gique sur la Route nationale\u202f3. Dans le Sud-Kivu, malgr\u00e9 un l\u00e9ger repli pr\u00e8s de Kamanyola, le M23 progresse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237390538,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peYfbV-s1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/justiceexpeerience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMGP0244.jpg?fit=4288%2C3216&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237390538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}