Resources
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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
DRC: "Majority of rapists go unpunished"
IRIN, 18 March 2008
The War that Never Ends
Paula Donovan
aids-free world, 24 February 2008
Kabila forces blamed for killings
BBC News, 25 October 2007
DRC: Hospital's Tale Reveals Missing Children, Brutalised Women
Anuradha Kher,
IPS Inter Press Service 24 October 2007
“They Are Destroying the Female Species in Congo”: Congolese Human Rights Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Sexual Terrorism and Africa's Forgotten War
Amy Goodman interview on Democracy Now!, 8 October 2007
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times, 7 October 2007
The war on women in East Congo
Stephen Lewis interview on WHYY Radio, 10 October 2007
Women left for dead -- and the man who's saving them
Eve Ensler
Glamour Magazine, September 2007 Issue
A Conversation with Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler Deschryver: Femicide in the Congo
PBS POV Interview, 17 September 2007
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
The Killing Fields
Jimmie Briggs
Poz, July/August 2007
Shock at sex crimes in DR Congo
BBC NEWS, 30 July 2007
Radio journalist gunned down in DRC
The Citizen, 14 June 2007
The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
Mahmood Mamdani
London Review of Books, 8 March 2007
Women in Blue Berets: U.N. mission addresses Congo violence—and gender equity
Femke Van Zeijl
Ms. Magazine, 2007
Sexual violence against men and boys [PDF]
Wynne Russell
Forced Migration Review 27, 2007
Sexual violence in South Kivu, Congo [PDF]
Claudia Rodriguez
Forced Migration Review 27, 2007
Hundreds of thousands raped in Congo wars
Chris McGreal
The Guardian Unlimited, 14 November 2006
More Vicious Than Rape
Rod Nordland
Newsweek, 13 November 2006
Beyond Victimhood: Women’s Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo, and Uganda
International Crisis Group, June 2006
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)
International Alert, 2005
“Not Women Anymore…” The Congo’s rape survivors face pain, shame and AIDS
Stephanie Nolen
Ms. Magazine, 2005
‘I HAVE NO JOY, NO PEACE OF MIND’, MEDICAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DRC [PDF]
Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland, March 2004
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
Films
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Websites
DOCS (Doctors on Call for Service Foundation, Inc.)
V-Day's 2007 Spotlight: Women in Conflict Zones
International Rescue Committee
Fondation Solidarite' des Homes (Foundation for Peoples' Solidarity) (in French)
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative