Dorothea Hilhorst provides expert briefing to the UN on sexual violence response in the DRC

On Wednesday 27th January, Professor Dorothea Hilhorst will give an expert briefing in New York at the UN on a major forthcoming report co-funded by the Justice and Security Research Programme (JSRP), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC). The briefing will take the form of a brownbag lunch, and will cover the main findings of ‘Getting the balance right? Sexual violence response in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A comparison between 2011 and 2014’, written by Nynke Douma, Dorothea Hilhorst and Jocelyn Matabaro, which builds on an earlier study by Douma and Hilhorst. The executive summary of the forthcoming report can be read below.