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Kristof on Congo: “The rape capital of the world”

Posted by Kate Sands Adams on June 16th, 2008

Congo courtesy Kevin Sites
Photo courtesy Kevin Sites, hotzone.yahoo.com
Nicholas Kristof devoted much of his column in The New York Times yesterday to the situation in eastern Congo, “the rape capital of the world.” His companion blog on the Times Web site notes that the International Rescue Committee is “among the few private aid groups” active there.

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