CONGO — As violence against women and girls escalated dramatically in the context of Congo’s wars, Dr. Mukwege and the staff of Panzi Hospital dedicated significant resources to treating women

CONGO — As violence against women and girls escalated dramatically in the context of Congo’s wars, Dr. Mukwege and the staff of Panzi Hospital dedicated significant resources to treating women

par | Fév 22, 2018 | BEST PRACTICES

As a direct outcome of the war, maternal mortality was on the rise. The safety of all women and girls were being impacted by brutal forces that ravaged their bodies in unimaginable ways. Dr. Mukwege’s first patient was a survivor of rape, whose reproductive organs had...
THE NEW YORKER — NIGERIA / The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl Every year, thousands of teen-agers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe

THE NEW YORKER — NIGERIA / The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl Every year, thousands of teen-agers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe

par | Fév 21, 2018 | SPECIAL NEWS

More than eleven thousand Nigerian women were rescued in the Mediterranean last year, according to the International Organization for Migration, eighty per cent of whom had been trafficked for sexual exploitation. “You now have girls who are thirteen, fourteen,...