Rapes in the Congo: More Than a Weapon of War

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second-most dangerous country in the world for women, mostly because of the number of rapes, says a recent Thompson-Reuters Foundation poll of gender experts. Estimates vary widely, from 40 to 1,150 women raped there every day, depending on the source. About 9 percent of the population in eastern Congo experienced some form of sexual violence from 2009 to 2010, a U.S. Government Accountability Office study reported this month.