Resources
Video:
For his courage in healing women in the middle of Congo's decade's long war, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Director and Founder of the ground-breaking Panzi General Referral Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was honored at V TO THE TENTH with an award in his name--the inaugural Denis Mukwege Award. The war has left 5.4 million Congolese dead and 200,000 women raped. Watch the Video >>
Books:
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality
Thomas Turner
All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
Bryan Mealer
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:
Turning Pain to Power: Eve Ensler and Dr. Denis Mukwege, FORA.tv
February 18, 2009
Turning Pain To Power Tour: Eve Ensler on Democracy Now!
February 9, 2009
Massacre Unfurls in Congo, Despite Nearby Support
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: December 11, 2008
The New York Times
Rwanda Stirs Deadly Brew of Troubles in Congo
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: December 4, 2008
The New York Times
The Spoils: Congo’s Riches, Looted by Renegade Troops
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: November 15, 2008
The New York Times
Rape Victims’ Words Help Jolt Congo Into Change
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: October 17, 2008
The New York Times
DR Congo: Peace Accord Fails to End Killing of Civilians Human Rights Watch
Brussels, July 21, 2008
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
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
Women Left for Dead -- and the Man Who's Saving Them
Eve Ensler
Glamour Magazine
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
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
Rod Nordland
Newsweek
June 1, 2007
The Killing Fields
Jimmie Briggs
July/August 2007
Poz
Mahmod Mamdani on Democracy Now
Films:
Websites:
V-Day's 2007 Spotlight: Women In Conflict Zones
International Rescue Committee
Fondation Solidarite' des Homes (Foundation for Peoples' Solidarity)
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
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