KANYABIYUNGA, CONGO – MARCH 20: (AFRICA OUT) A woman covers her face as she describes her rape to a health worker March 20, 2006 in Kanyabiyunga, D.R. Congo. She alleges that she was raped by three members of the military while visiting her grandmother. While there are currently no available statistics for sexual assaults against women, health workers believe that the crime is at epidemic proportions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The crimes often go unreported due to women’s fear of rejection by her husband and stigmatization by the greater community. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country that loses an estimated 1,400 people per day due to war since 1998, is struggling to hold presidential elections this summer. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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