Nobel Women's Initiative

Since 1996, sexual violence against women and children in the eastern part of the DRC has been used to torture and humiliate women and girls and destroy families. Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource, Power to the Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo, initiated by the women of Eastern DRC, V-Day and UNICEF, calls for an end to impunity for sexual violence, for measures to ensure that state armed forces and police do not perpetrate sexual violence against women and girls and for the full implementation of national laws that protect and empower women.

Get involved. Tell the President of DRC, Joseph Kabila Kabange, to do more to stop the violence against women and girls and bring perpetrators to justice. Educate Yourself on the situation in the eastern part of the DRC.

News on the crisis:

• East Congo violence fuels rape spree, Reuters, 3 January 2008

• Rape epidemic raises trauma of Congo war, The New York Times, 7 October 2007
  

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