Helping women and girls claim their bodily autonomy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Lisa* was orphaned as a child and raised by her sister and brother-in-law. Growing up in Bukavu, a small town in South Kivu, the threats of violence conflict and widespread sexual violence were never far away. “The safest place for me was home,” she explained to UNFPA. But that changed when she reached adolescence.
Source: UNFPA News - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund Source Type: news
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