The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most protracted and forgotten conflicts in the world. Despite the fact that UN peacekeepers are monitoring a peace deal after years of war, fighting still continues, particularly in the east of the country. The victims of this drawn-out conflict are hundreds of thousands of girls who have suffered very brutal mass rapes. Besides frequent health problems, the raped women are often expelled from their own families and shunned by their communities. The conflict has also left behind an entire generation of orphans who were conceived as a result of rape.