Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Phil Moore – Amnesty International – Tuesday, 27 November 2012 (originally published 23 Nov) Tens of thousands of civilians fled in fear this week as the armed group M23 marched into the eastern Congolese city of Goma – worsening an already dire human rights situation. Following the city’s fall to the M23 on Tuesday, many more [...]
IRIN Africa – Thursday, 9 June, 2011 (originally published 7 June) BUKAVU, 7 June 2011 (IRIN) – Five years after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revised its laws against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), these crimes continue to go unpunished because of judicial inaction and a legal culture at odds with the changes. The [...]
KJ Mullins – Digital Journal – Thursday, 12 May, 2011 The ultimate price of war is the destruction of people’s spirit. In the Congo the weapon of rape is the destroying women, children and men in the most brutal way. Rape is not a sexual act. It takes a piece of a person’s soul with [...]
