BELGIUM-DRCONGO-POLITICS-RIGHTS

Lea Tavares Mujinga (3L), Simone Vandenbroecke Ngalula (5L), Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeken and Marie Jose Loshi sit during a hearing in the case of five Belgian-Congolese women against the Belgian State for crimes against humanity, in Brussels on October 14, 2021. - Five women, born in Congo, from Congolese mothers and European colonial fathers, are among the victims of the segregation of mixed-race children in the Congo at the end of the colonial period, they were taken from their mothers and placed in orphanages. - Belgium OUT (Photo by HADRIEN DURE / Belga / AFP) / Belgium OUT (Photo by HADRIEN DURE/Belga/AFP via Getty Images)