In this post, Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa and Delu Lusambya Mwenebyake develop their earlier post on sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo by focusing on how to develop codes of conduct for humanitarian workers that is embedded in the context of DRC.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in its eastern side, has become a theatre of recurrent humanitarian cases of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA).
There have been reports of sexual violence and abuse from communities during the Ebola response and from internally displaced people as a result of waves of wars and conflicts.
In their post, Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa and Delu Lusambya Mwenebyake provide some suggestions as the fight against SEA can be embedded in the context of DRC.
Read the full post - 'Adapting codes of conduct for humanitarian workers to the DRC context can prevent and combat sexual abuse'. BlISS, 12 December 2023
This post is a follow-up to an earlier one in which the authors describe the widespread sexual abuse in DRC and call for the fight against it to be embedded in the specific context of DRC.
