Sexual and Gender-based Violence, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - During the last civil conflict in Liberia, local media reported on the massive increase of sexual violence, with nearly 50 per cent of the 658 rape survivors aged between 5 and 12 years. In 90 per cent of the cases involving children, the attacker was someone known to the victim.
- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of women and girls have been raped. UN officials in just one part of eastern Congo, North Kivu, estimate there are 25,000 cases of sexual violence against women and children each year. Hundreds of women line up to receive extensive surgery due to the mutilations from the rapes.
- In mid-2006 in Darfur, 200 women experienced sexual violence in a single five-week period. Earlier in 2005, 500 rape survivors received medical care.
- Internally displaced women and girls from Sierra Leone have suffered an extraordinary level of rape, sexual violence and other gross human rights violations during their country's civil war.
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