HRW: Cyklonoffer forced to exchange sex for food

When he arrived, he placed the bags on the ground, began to take on his thing and said that now it was my turn to thank him. I said to my children, to go home to my friend and when they passed I was with him, " says a woman in the HRW report.

the Offender is a representative of the ruling party, Frelimo, which administers biståndsfördelningen. HRW has collected several similar stories that testify to community leaders in several parts of Mozambique, take advantage of the extremely distressed women in the cyclone Idais aftermath of the crisis, also in the tent camp set up for all the tens of thousands of people who lost their homes.

– the Sexual exploitation of women who are struggling to provide food for their families after the cyclone Idai is disgusting and cruel and must be stopped immediately. The authorities should immediately investigate reports of women forced to exchange sex for food and properly punish the one who abuse their position of power to exploit and abuse women, " HRW's regional director Dewa Mavhinga in the report.

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the 55 meters in seconds, and very large precipitation. The material damage has been estimated at around 10 billion, but more pressing is that, according to the UN children's fund, Unicef, 1.85 million people are in urgent need of help. A million of them are children, and far more than half of the remaining are women.

the UN world food programme WFP says it delivered food to one million people and several other organisations have assisted the Mozambique vulnerable population. But several places are difficult to reach and, in some cases, you have to submit ransoneringsansvaret to local leaders, who sometimes made use things like lists usually contain only the family male representatives.

" the Mozambican authorities are committed to ensure that everyone gets the protection they need in this mode, including vulnerable women who are at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse. Disaster relief should be given free to all in need and the government should together with the workers to ensure that biståndsdistributionen is never used as an opportunity to commit abuse, " said Dewa Mavhinga.