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"Madam President, it is with considerable emotion, anger and, at times, fury that I note that the issue of the raped women in eastern Congo is before us again. It is not the first time, and we remain powerless in the face of it.
I would simply like to say that I do not believe that we are powerless. We have been given a list of the decisions taken by the United Nations and the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). A law is currently being drawn up in the Democratic Republic of Congo to introduce particular laws covering this kind of violation. It has been mentioned that what is needed, in this part of the country where the civil war is getting under way again, are political negotiations.
However, I must tell you that there is something that I find particularly repellent. We are talking about women whom we have visited and to whom we have listened here in this Parliament. The fact is that these women, who have been raped, do not even have the right to abortion, and, today, the children of these rapes are rejected by all communities. That, today, is a human tragedy.
Do not think, ladies and gentlemen, that I am trying to put the issue of abortion back on the table in the light of these emergencies. In most current legislation prohibiting abortion, rape provides an exception to this rule; in Congo this is not yet the case, and these 100 women and the 300 more that we have met, will give birth to children that they do not love and who will become part of those children abandoned on the Congolese streets.
So this is indeed a human tragedy. I would like us to consider it further in another place, at another time. It is unacceptable from all points of view."@en1
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