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Description and consequences of sexual violence in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Françoise Duroch1,4*, Melissa McRae2 and Rebecca F Grais2,3

1 Médecins Sans Frontières (Operational Centre Geneva), 78 rue de Lausanne, CH-1211 Genève 21, Switzerland

2 Epicentre, 53-55 rue Crozatier, 75012, Paris, France

3 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

4 Geneva Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH), University of Geneva, rue Rothschild, CH-1211 Genève 21, Switzerland

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BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011, 11:5 doi:10.1186/1472-698X-11-5

Published: 19 April 2011

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Phrases remembered by victims if they refused rape. A selection of free text phrases that the victims recall the perpetrator(s) saying to them during the act of aggression.

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