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En 2008, lors d'une conférence de haut niveau sur le rôle des missions de paix dans la lutte contre les violences sexuelles, l'ancien commandant adjoint de la Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République démocratique du Congo — la MONUC —, le major-général Patrick Cammaert, a affirmé qu'il était plus dangereux d'être une femme qu'un soldat dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Malheureusement, la RDC n'est pas l'exception, mais la règle.
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First, I will provide a brief overview of sexual violence. In 2008, at a high-level conference on the role of peacekeeping missions in the struggle against sexual violence, the former assistant commanding officer of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—MONUC—Major General Patrick Cammaert, said that it was more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Unfortunately, the DRC is not the exception, but the rule. Seventy per cent of current victims of conflicts are civilians, not combatants, and the majority of those victims are women and girls. A disproportionate number of women are still dealing with this type of violence. Some 60,000 women were raped in Bosnia-Herzegovina, between 250,000 and 500,000 during the genocide in Rwanda and more than 64,000 during the conflict in Sierra Leone. It should also be noted that these figures are estimates because most rapes are not reported by the victims.
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