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Sexual Abuse Information Series II

7. Strongly condemns the continued use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war equal to a war crime; recognises the deep physical and psychological wounds that such abuses leave on the victims, along with the dramatic consequences for their families, stresses that this phenomenon needs to be addressed through victim support programmes and urges the mobilisation of political leadership with a view to putting forward a coordinated set of measures for the prevention and alleviation of the use of sexual violence; points, in ...[+++]this respect, to the ongoing appalling situation in Congo; recalls that a mass gang rape took place from 30 July to 4 August 2010 in the eastern Congo mining district, that at least 8 300 rapes were reported in eastern Congo in 2009 and that at least 1 244 women reported being raped in the first quarter of 2010, which is an average of 14 rapes per day; points out that this situation remains unchanged in 2011; urges both EU missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – EUPOL RD Congo and EUSEC RD Congo – to make the fight against sexual violence and the participation of women the main priorities in the effort to reform the Congolese security sector;

7. Strongly condemns the continued use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war equal to a war crime; recognises the deep physical and psychological wounds that such abuses leave on the victims, along with the dramatic consequences for their families, stresses that this phenomenon needs to be addressed through victim support programmes and urges the mobilisation of political leadership with a view to putting forward a coordinated set of measures for the prevention and alleviation of the use of sexual violence; points, in ...[+++]this respect, to the ongoing appalling situation in Congo; recalls that a mass gang rape took place from 30 July to 4 August 2010 in the eastern Congo mining district, that at least 8 300 rapes were reported in eastern Congo in 2009 and that at least 1 244 women reported being raped in the first quarter of 2010, which is an average of 14 rapes per day; points out that this situation remains unchanged in 2011; urges both EU missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – EUPOL RD Congo and EUSEC RD Congo – to make the fight against sexual violence and the participation of women the main priorities in the effort to reform the Congolese security sector;

Regarding the system of reporting sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and helping children in need, hotlines under the number 116 000 for missing children, 116 006 for victims of crime and 116 111 for children, as introduced by Commission Decision 2007/116/EC of 15 February 2007 on reserving the national numbering beginning with 116 for harmonised numbers for harmonised services of social value (11), should be promoted and experience regarding their functioning should be taken into account.

(10e) Regarding the system of reporting sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and helping children in need, hotlines under the number 116 000 for missing children, 116 006 for victims of crime and 116 111 for children, as introduced by Commission Decision 2007/116/EC of 15 February 2007 on reserving the national numbering beginning with 116 for harmonised numbers for harmonised services of social value as amended by Decision 2009/884/EC of 30 November 2009, should be promoted and experience with their functioning should be taken into account.