Human Rights Watch : 200,000 women , girls raped in Eastern Congo since 1998 . Anneke van Woudenberg , senior researcher with Human Rights Watch , told Christiane Amanpour that 200,000 women and girls have been raped in Eastern Congo since 1998 , and the condition of women has become more dire as the Congolese army has pressed a military campaign against armed groups in the countryside . Condition of women more dire as the army fights armed groups in the country . More than 5 million die in Congo from disease , hunger resulting from fighting . Comment: The UN has a report on this that is pretty good
Human Rights Watch : 200,000 women , girls raped in Eastern Congo since 1998 . Condition of women more dire as the army fights armed groups in the country . More than 5 million die in Congo from disease , hunger resulting from fighting . Comment: The UN has a report on this that is pretty good