By Sarah | June 20, 2011
Guardian Online, 14 June 2011
The price of womanhood came brutally to Odette, born in a wartorn country often dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
The 18-year-old from Minova recalls the day that members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), came to her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and scarred her life for ever. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | February 21, 2011
BBC News, 21 February 2011
A military court in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo investigating a case of mass rape has sentenced Lt Col Kibibi Mutware to 20 years in jail. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | February 8, 2011
A women’s conference in Addis Ababa aimed to move gender issues from the margins to the forefront of debate in Africa
Elissa Jobson, Guardian.co.uk
“We know that the African Union summit is still very masculine but we are trying to bring in the voices of women,” said Gertrude Mongella, former president of the Pan-African parliament, explaining the rationale behind the shadow summit organised by the Gender is my Agenda Campaign (Gimac) in Addis Ababa on 24-26 January. A difficult proposition in a forum where, at the very highest level, there is only one female representative, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | January 10, 2011
More than 30 women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day, the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | December 2, 2010
By Victoria Dove Dimandja and Jose Musau Kalanda, It must stop campaign
The Congolese people have endured Africa’s longest and deadliest war. The scramble for Congo’s enormous mineral wealth has fuelled a conflict which has claimed the lives of more than 6 million people since 1996, and ongoing mass rapes. This is the worst humanitarian crisis and the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II, yet the media has given it little attention, and much of the world remains uninformed. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | September 16, 2010
AIDS-Free World, 16 September 2010
In yet another grisly déjà vu, the world has heard about hundreds of rapes in a small area of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, or Congo) in late July and early August, many of them in North Kivu, within a few miles of a United Nations encampment of peacekeepers charged with protecting civilians. The UN is not just negligent but complicit in these crimes. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | September 9, 2010
Daniel Howden, The Independent, 9 September 2010
The United Nations has been urged to go back to basics in protecting civilians in Eastern Congo after admitting that 500 rapes in the space of a single month amounted to a serious failure in its mission.
The mass rape of more than 240 women in villages close to a peacekeeping base in Eastern Congo a month ago has seriously shaken confidence in the UN’s largest operation of its kind. It has prompted debate at the Security Council, an internal inquiry and a new show of force titled “operation shopwindow”. Meanwhile, details are still emerging of another spate of mass rapes in a different part of the vast mineral-rich country, which takes the total number of people affected since the end of July to 500. Read the rest of this entry »
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