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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10231

8 October 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/congo
European Parliament and Catherine Ashton call for end to impunity for rape and other serious human rights violations in DRC

Brussels, 07/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The EU is shocked by the collective rapes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 30 July and 4 August last and believes that these crimes should not go unpunished.

In a resolution adopted on Thursday 7 October in Brussels, by a very large majority (585 votes in favour, 8 against, with 34 abstentions), the European Parliament harshly condemned these rapes used as a new weapon of war, as well as the human rights...

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