Kinshasa, 11 Aug-(ANA)-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has demanded an end to widespread sexual abuse in war-ravaged eastern DR Congo, during a visit to the country.
Mrs Clinton spoke out during a tour of a crowded refugee camp in the eastern city of Goma.
Earlier, following talks with Congolese President Joseph Kabila, she said there should be no impunity for the perpetrators of sexual violence.
The UN estimates 3,500 women have been raped in DR Congo so far this year.
And in a report released to coincide with Mrs Clinton's visit, the aid agency Oxfam said it had monitored 20 communities and found that children, some as young as four, had been raped in half of them.
Men have also been the victims of rape.
Mrs Clinton, on a seven-nation African tour, has focused on women's issues and violence against women during her time in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A recent upsurge in fighting in the mineral-rich east of the country has seen a huge rise in the rate of rapes.
More than four million people were killed in DR Congo between 1998 and 2003, when armies from several countries fought each other on Congolese territory. (ANA)