Home Office written question – answered at on 24 March 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to implement the recommendations in the report, Rape as torture in the DRC, published by Freedom from Torture in June 2014.
Her Majesty's Government issued a Country Policy Bulletin on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in October 2014 which includes guidance and country information for asylum decision-makers on considering the risks faced by womenreturning to the DRC.
The Bulletin is available at:
The Bulletin cites the Freedom from Torture (FfT) report of June 2014 and a July 2013 FfT submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the same subject.
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