Violence against women is a scourge on poor countries
But women’s campaigns are starting to have an effect
“I DID NOT get pregnant by choice,” says Annunciata, a mother of eight in Mweso, eastern Congo. Her husband often raped her. “Husbands do that,” she says matter-of-factly. He hit her, too. One night, drunk, he slashed her legs with a knife.
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