The nuns are unsure how many women they have helped at St. Euphrasia's Safe Home, but a senior worker there said at least 25 women are in the house on any given day.
Sisters who attended the 69th session of the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women (March 10-21) spoke of progress and pushback since the 1995 Beijing Declaration.
Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo in the municipality of Kimbanseke in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, fell victim to the attack on March 18. The attackers smashed the wall of the congregation's residence to gain entry.
Gender-based violence was the focus of many of this year's sessions at the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, showing the extent to which the problem remains persistent, serious and endemic.
