Positive developments for survivors of sexual violence in DRC
February saw the trial of 11 men before the Democratic Republic of Congo’s pioneering “mobile gender court”. The men were accused of raping more than 60 women in Fizi, South Kivu province. In February, the “City of Joy” also had its official opening. The compound will serve as a campus where Congolese women, most of them rape victims, will be groomed to become leaders in their communities in the hope that they will catalyze social change.
