Foreign secretary William Hague may want to "end the culture of impunity" for rape as a weapon of war (and even have recently tweeted his concern about the rise in rapes in DRC), but anyone fleeing to the UK from exactly these kinds of attacks shouldn't necessarily expect sympathetic treatment when they get here.
Yet in all this time little has changed, either in terms of impunity for rape or in regard to helping victims.
Impunity for rape and murder isn't only awarded to jealous exes.
Now when we see each other we ask, 'Were you raped today?' " The report says: "Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, operating with complete impunity, sexually assault, rape, beat, shoot, and stab women and girls inside camps for the displaced and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood".
He also said that women and girls are the most neglected victims of war, and it is imperative that de facto impunity for rapes in armed conflicts is something that is brought to an end.
But the Congolese troops in the hills around Minova continue to rape with impunity.
But the aim of her protest is clear: India must scrap a law giving impunity to soldiers who rape, abduct, murder or torture her fellow north-easterners.On March 4th Ms Sharmila was charged with attempted suicide.
They turned up blogs stating that the Pentagon was accelerating war plans for invading many Muslim nations, and others amplifying Taliban accusations that American troops rape with impunity across Afghanistan.
But they still rejoiced at the prospect, as a sign that the deaths of their loved ones mattered and as a sign that impunity for murder and rape might be coming to an end.
As long as it is commonplace for Liberian children to be viewed as sexual objects, and for men to think they can take what they want from them with impunity, then the child rape problem will persist and grow.
