Countries
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Burundi
The Burundian civil war lasted from 1993 to 2005, but this war was the only the latest in a cycle of violent conflict within the country. Civil unrest in Burundi had been on-going since it gained independence from Belgium in 1962 (Bundervoet et al, 2007:3-4). The unrests were largely due to ethnic divides between the [...]
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Rwanda
Both Rwanda and Burundi have a history of Hutu and Tutsi conflicts. The ethnic divides between these two tribes were often used and enforced by governments who wanted to stay in power. In the prelude to 1994, many see a concerted effort to vilify Tutsis and a pro-Hutu bias from the government (IPEP/OAU, 2000:ix). Genocide [...]
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Conflict History The war within the DRC has been compared to the Second World War and the holocaust (Turner, 2007:2), mainly because of the large number of deaths due to the war. Its death toll from 1997 to 2001 has been estimated at 3,8 million (Turner, 2007:2), although various estimates between 900,000 and 5.4 million [...]
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Liberia
The recent past of Liberia is rife with armed conflict. The country was involved in a civil war for 14 years, with a series of coups and counter-coups creating a volatile boiling pot where armed response was seen as an accepted way of responding to differences. History In the beginning of the 19th century the [...]
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Papua New Guinea
PNG, with more than six million inhabitants, is known for its high rate of gender-based violence. According to the PNG Law Reform Commission, 70 percent of women in PNG say they have been physically abused by their husbands. That number reaches 100 percent in some parts of the country. And though domestic violence is a [...]
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United Kingdom
In the UK, 167 women are raped every day, women who are murdered by a partner or former partner number two per week in the UK, three per day in the USA and one per hour in Russia. Statistics The 2010/11 CSEW estimates: It is estimated 60,000 women have been raped in the last year [...]