sexual violence

Sorrow, suffering and mutilation are evident features of the ongoing civil war in Northern Uganda Harald Henden Opinion

Wartime rapes: men, too

12/05/2011 Marc Le Pape

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a number of English-language researchers have regularly asked the following question: why do international aid organisations pay so little attention to rapes of men and boys committed during armed conflicts?

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Au Congo, Médecins sans frontières soigne des pygmés Benoit Finck Analysis

Guerre et viols au Congo : des urgentistes à Brazzaville

02/02/2004 Marc Le Pape

La standardisation des secours humanitaires est à la fois justifiée et critiquée. Comment lier réactivité et standardisation ? Marc Le Pape étudie l'exemple des opérations conduites par MSF au Congo-Brazzaville à partir de 1999 : l'assistance aux femmes victimes de viols et les secours nutritionnels.

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Civilians Under Fire

10/01/2001 Marc Le Pape Pierre Salignon

In the face of violence, how does a medical relief organization react and respond? This book is an account of one experience; it describes and analyzes the characteristics of one intervention: that of Médecins Sans Frontières in Congo Brazzaville in 1998-2000. 

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