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Burundi: Grappling With the Shame Rape

Throughout the 15 years of conflict in the country, violence against women, especially sexual abuse and rape, has been a widespread phenomenon.

  • Burundi:   Rape Shame Stings Long After War

    RNW Africa, 10 May 2012

    Women in Burundi continue to suffer from the chaos that raged during the country's 12-year civil war. Since the conflict's end in 2005, local sexual abuse support centres have… Read more »

Oxfam International

Since 2005, local sexual abuse support centres have attended to over 10,000 rape victims.

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