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Meeting with Mathilde Muhido

The APPG met with Congoloese Human Rights Defender, Mathilde Muhido, to discuss sexual  and gender-based violence. Mathilde was in the UK to receive the Human Rights Watch prize for extraordinary activism which was presented at a dinner in London's Natural History Museum. The award is in recognition of her work on sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DRC. Sexual violence remains endemic in eastern Congo and is accompanied by wide spread impunity.

 

The situation has worsened of late as a result of current military operations called Kimia II being undertaken against the Rwandan rebel group, the FDLR. Mathilde was a member of the transitional parliament of the DRC until 2006 and was influential in putting in place the law which made rape illegal in the DRC.   

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