In “Angola: Systematic Rapes and Violence against ExpelledCongolese Migrants—The Women Testify,” Medisins sans Frontieres collected over one hundred women’s stories exposing the human rights abuses which they have suffered. Many Congolese women cross the border into Angola in order to work in the diamond industry. When some members of the Angolan army discover Congolese women, they not only expel them, but also sexually assault them. MSF established a center near the Angolan border to provide medical and psychological services for sexual and physical violence survivors as well as documenting their stories.
Compiled from: “Angola: Systematic Rapes and Violence against ExpelledCongolese Migrants—The Women Testify,” Medisins sans Frontieres, December 2007.