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V-Day Spotlights Congolese Women Torn by War

By Womens Enews Staff ● Uncategorized ● February 13, 2009

For its 11th year, V-Day is focusing on women in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo whose bodies have been torn apart by armed men’s sexual violence. Beneficiaries include Panza Hospital and UNICEF.

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Band of Congo Radio Reporters Aid Rape Victims

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● November 12, 2008

This article about Franchou Namegabe of the South Kivu Women’s Media Association first ran on Nov. 12, 2008. We are republishing it today because on March 19, Namegable won a leadership award from Vital Voices.

Mass Stigma Scars Congo’s Rape Survivors

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● October 5, 2008

A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard. While perpetrators go unpunished the victims, including children, are ostracized. Amnesty International has issued a new warning.

Paraguay’s Traffic Hub Imperils Female Teens

By Andy Footner ● Arts & Culture ● January 8, 2008

Trafficked girls and women from the Paraguayan interior are among the merchandise in the triple-border shopping region with Argentina and Brazil. Advocates try to help traumatized survivors find “some way to live.”

Pro-Choice Activists Rally as U.K. Mulls Rollbacks

By Anna Louie Sussman ● Health & Science ● November 2, 2007

Colombian and Mexican activists last week told an international safe-abortion conference about strategies that helped them succeed in liberalizing abortion laws. They spoke in London, where abortion limits are under discussion.

Igric Shines Bright Light on Dark Balkan Stories

By Laura J. Winter ● Arts & Culture ● March 2, 2006

The Balkans is a fractured region, still mending from years of ethnic and sectarian war and a media saddled by tycoons peddling nationalistic views. Gordana Igric is determined to bring the Balkans together through a truer, independent journalism.

Peace Process Often Ignores Female Ex-Soldiers

By Nicole Itano ● Politics ● June 27, 2004

Girls and women are active combatants in wars across the world, but the international community is failing to recognize that. As a result, the post-conflict needs of female soldiers are not being met.

In War-Riddled Congo, Militias Rape with Impunity

By Tiare Rath ● Arts & Culture ● April 27, 2003

As the five-year conflict rages on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women and girls continue to be sexually assaulted by members of the many warring militias, the majority of whom are infected with HIV/AIDS.

Atrocities against Women Widespread in Congo War

By Barbara Crossette ● Politics ● August 23, 2002

The first comprehensive report on the rape and abuse of women during Africa’s widest war finds that all sides used brutal violence against civilian women as a military tactic.