A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
The Impact of Service
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SOS-Fed and The Advocacy Project have started to produce online material for this campaign. Peace Fellow Walter James, who worked with SOS-Fed in the summer of 2009, produced a 2-part video film on the group, to go with his written blogs.
This film is a first step by SOS-Fed to document the impact on women and communities. One of the women interviewed, Kanyere Taabo, suffered three miscarriages after she was raped. Another says bluntly ‘…we are treated like trash.’ Munga Amisi Awi, a field worker with SOSFED, reports that women who seek counseling, regularly speak of suicide. Their families suffer prolonged periods of neglect. SOS-Fed has also noticed another insidious trend – a growing tendency to associate women with sexual abuse, disparage them, and demean their value to the community. This may be leading to increased domestic abuse.
Resources on Sexual Violence in DRC
Mr Jack puts out the word! SOSFED's public service announcement was produced by the Congolese DJ, Mister Jack, and is playing fifteen times a week on six stations throughout DRC. Amisi Awi, an SOSFED field official, commented that, "We decided to use music to reach people in South Kivu. In Congolese culture, we find that music and songs can carry a message of peace to a broad audience in ways which simple speaking does not. Mister Jack has helped us bring our message to South Kivu."
UNFPA Report on rape statistics in 2010 (French)
(The International Crisis Group) Congo: No Stability in Kivu, Despite Rapprochement with Rwanda. The failure to find a political solution has left civilians dangerously exposed. (November 16, 2010)
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict briefs the Security Council on her recent visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. In DRC more than 300 civilians were raped between 30 July and 2 August in the Walikale region in the eastern part of the country. UNTV / MONUSCO.
"Update No. 1: Democratic Republic of Congo, 3 September 2010"
UN Security Council Report
"Briefing to the UN Security Council on recent mass rapes in the DRC, September 7, 2010"
By: Atul Khare, Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hosted by: Peacewomen.org
"Now the World is Without Me." An investigation of sexual violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Oxfam and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, April 2010.
"Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone: Sexual Violence and Military Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo"
Human Rights Watch report documenting sexual violence committed by the Congolese military
For more information and resources please visit the SOSFED website.
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