Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has removed photographs of a teenage rape survivor from its Web site after criticism that the images were unethical and racist.
MSF took down two photographs of a 16-year-old girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) who was gang-raped by three armed men after photographers, human rights advocates and lawyers condemned the images on Twitter.
A spokesperson said the medical non-governmental organization (NGO) accepted that it had been “a misjudgement . to publish identifiable pictures of a minor who had been through this experience.”
He said the orphaned girl, who had been raped two months before