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The 2006 election in the Democratic Republic of Congo was supposed to usher in a new period of peace...

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A sexual violence counselor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image by Michael Kavanagh. Congo, 2008.

One of the worst places in the world to be a woman is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's where reporter Michael Kavanagh tells us in a Reporter's Notebook about meeting a woman under rather strange circumstances. She jumped in his car out of a desperate desire to escape a life of war, rape, and risk to herself and her baby.

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