Congo Rape Action Event - October 6th, 6 p.m. - To develop our action strategy for WILPF NY Metro's Project Congo.

The meeting will be held at the 1199 SEIU Union Hall, Bread and Roses Gallery, 310 W. 43rd St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.) Take the A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, or W to 42nd Street. Come hear Bibiane Tshefu speak about the situation in Congo and see assorted clips from films about Congo, some of which are part of WILPF's NY Metro's Trudy Orris Film Series.

Resources

Books:
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality
Thomas Turner

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Michela Wrong

The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila, A People's History
George Nzongola-Ntalaja

Articles, Interviews and Reports:

Women Left for Dead -- and the Man Who's Saving Them
Eve Ensler
Glamour Magazine

Kabila forces blamed for killings
BBC, 25 October 2007

DRC:Hospital's Tale Reveals Missing Children, Brutalised Women
Anuradha Kher, 24 October 2007

Stephen Lewis Interview on WHYY Radio on The War On Women in East Congo

"They Are Destroying the Female Species in Congo": Congolese Human Rights Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Sexual Terrorism and Africa's Forgotten War
Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (streaming audio)

Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times

A Conversation with Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler Deschryver: Ending Femicide in the Congo
PBS Podcast

Stephen Lewis* calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the eastern region of the DRC
Press conference statement Nairobi, Kenya:
13 September 2007

Shock at sex crimes in DR Congo
BBC NEWS, July 30, 2007

Women in Blue Berets: U.N. mission addresses Congo violence—and gender equity
Femke Van Zeijl
Ms. Magazine, 2007

Not Women Anymore…’: the Congo’s rape survivors face pain, shame and AIDS
Stephanie Nolen
Ms. Magazine, 2005

Hundreds of thousands raped in Congo wars
Chris McGreal
The Guardian Unlimited, November ,14 2006

Sexual Violence against men and boys
Wynne Russell
Forced Migration Review 27, 2007

Sexual Violence in South Kivu, Congo
Claudia Rodriguez
Forced Migration Review 27, 2007

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mass Rape: Time for Remedies
Amnesty International (2004)

The War within the War: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo
Human Rights Watch, 2002

Women's Bodies As Battleground : Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls During the War in the DRC
Réseau des Femmes pour un Développement Associatif (RFDA), Réseau des Femmes pour la Défense des Droits et la Paix (RFDP) and International Alert
2005

Beyond Victimhood: Women’s Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo, and Uganda International Crisis Group
June 2006

‘I have no joy, no peace of mind’: Medical, Psychosocial and Economic Consequences of Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC,
Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland March 2004

Radio journalist gunned down in DRC
Citizen.co.za

The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
Mahmood Mamdani
London Review of Books
March 8, 2007

More Vicious Than Rape
Rod Nordland
Newsweek
June 1, 2007

The Killing Fields Jimmie Briggs
July/August 2007
Poz

Mahmod Mamdani on Democracy Now

Films:
King Leopold's Ghosts
Lumo
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Cogo
Women In War Zones

Websites:
Human Rights Watch
Refugees International
IRIN
UNICEF
Stop Rape Now
Heal Africa
Panzi Hospital of Bukavu
DOCS
V-Day's 2007 Spotlight: Women In Conflict Zones
German Technical Cooperation
International Medical Corps
International Rescue Committee
Fondation Solidarite' des Homes (Foundation for Peoples' Solidarity)
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Congolese Women’s Campaign Against Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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