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World Heath Organization (WHO) / United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), "Clinical management of the Rape Victims, protocols' Development to adopt with refugees and peoples displaced (IDPs) in their own country" Edition reviewed 2005 -

This guide addresses the health professionals who work in situation of crisis (with refugees or people displaced in their own country - IDPs) or in other similar settings and who wish to develop specific protocols concerning medical treatment of the rape victims. It describes the best practices concerning clinical management of the rape victims in situation of crisis. It must be adapted to every situation while holding account of the policies and national procedures as well as of the availability of the facilities and medicines.

The document contains retailed information on the clinical management of women, men and children victims of rape. It explains how to realize a deepened medical exam, to consign the results and how to take care of those that undergo a vaginal, anal or oral penetration by a penis or other objects. It doesn't contain any advice concerning treatment standard of the injuries / lesions nor of psychological help although that can prove to be necessary in the setting of the complete care lavished to a person victim of rape. This document doesn't give either information on the procedures of return of the rape victims toward the services of communal support, or on the police and legal services.

The guide is available on line at http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/fr/clinical_mngt_rapesurvivors/
clinical_mngt_rapesurvivors_fr.pdf (In French)

UNICEF, “SOS Children: Democratic republic of Congo” Martin Bell’s report on the children trapped by the war, - July 2006. SOS children are a set of presentations showing the main obstacles hurting children in one region of the world at a moment of crisis. Martin Bell, Roving Ambassador of UNICEF-United Kingdom, undertook a trip in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006. One part of the report talks about sexual violence. http://www.unicef.org/french/childalert/drc/content/Child_Alert_DRC_fr.pdf (In French)

United Nations Fund for the population (UNFPA), UnitedNations Fund for women (UNIFEM), Nations United Fund children (UNICEF), and the United Nations for the Program Development (UNDP):

Different United Nations institutions, NGOs and some States raised their voices in the Brussels’s call, in June 2006, following the symposium organized by UNFPA on sexual violence in period of conflict. The delegates in the symposium required urgent and long-term actions to be taken to warn the sexual and gender violence. The text of the declaration of Brussels is available on line at http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue4/0406p51.htm

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Petition Without your support, our action will lose momentum. Without our partnership, your action will have little impact. Help us change the direction of the fight against sexual violence in the DRC. Thank you for reading and signing our petition by clicking here.	Skip to Main Content Campuni ya wanawake wa kongomani kwa kupiganisha ubakaji katika jamuhuri ya Congo Congolese Women’s Campaign Against Sexual Violence in the DRC Every day, 40 women are raped in the Eastern Congo. It's a well-known reality that has been documented and reported by media, NGOs, international institutions and States. But nothing changes, sexual violence is still widespread. So what more can be done?
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	Documentation UNITED NATIONS (NU) World Heath Organization (WHO) / United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), "Clinical management of the Rape Victims, protocols' Development to adopt with refugees and peoples displaced (IDPs) in their own country" Edition reviewed 2005 - This guide addresses the health professionals who work in situation of crisis (with refugees or people displaced in their own country - IDPs) or in other similar settings and who wish to develop specific protocols concerning medical treatment of the rape victims. It describes the best practices concerning clinical management of the rape victims in situation of crisis. It must be adapted to every situation while holding account of the policies and national procedures as well as of the availability of the facilities and medicines. The document contains retailed information on the clinical management of women, men and children victims of rape. It explains how to realize a deepened medical exam, to consign the results and how to take care of those that undergo a vaginal, anal or oral penetration by a penis or other objects. It doesn't contain any advice concerning treatment standard of the injuries / lesions nor of psychological help although that can prove to be necessary in the setting of the complete care lavished to a person victim of rape. This document doesn't give either information on the procedures of return of the rape victims toward the services of communal support, or on the police and legal services. The guide is available on line at http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/fr/clinical_mngt_rapesurvivors/ clinical_mngt_rapesurvivors_fr.pdf (In French) UNICEF, “SOS Children: Democratic republic of Congo” Martin Bell’s report on the children trapped by the war, - July 2006. SOS children are a set of presentations showing the main obstacles hurting children in one region of the world at a moment of crisis. Martin Bell, Roving Ambassador of UNICEF-United Kingdom, undertook a trip in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006. One part of the report talks about sexual violence. http://www.unicef.org/french/childalert/drc/content/Child_Alert_DRC_fr.pdf (In French) United Nations Fund for the population (UNFPA), UnitedNations Fund for women (UNIFEM), Nations United Fund children (UNICEF), and the United Nations for the Program Development (UNDP): Different United Nations institutions, NGOs and some States raised their voices in the Brussels’s call, in June 2006, following the symposium organized by UNFPA on sexual violence in period of conflict. The delegates in the symposium required urgent and long-term actions to be taken to warn the sexual and gender violence. The text of the declaration of Brussels is available on line at http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue4/0406p51.htm French Navigation Emergency
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