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Monologue from "Ruined", Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play, Set in the DRC

Submitted by Nell on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 5:48pm.

Actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine delivers a monologue from "Ruined, Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that is set in the DRC and concerns women as human battlefields in civil war. Bernstine portrays Salima, as she remembers how she was raped by soldiers.

EVERYBODY!!!

Submitted by Nell on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 1:51pm.

PLEASE...be sure to watch video of today's BRILLIANT (second panel) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, "Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones - Spotlight:  DRC and Sudan".  You will laugh and cry and be moved to ACT!

http://tinyurl.com/o9b5up for hearing and transcripts, and read Enough's Laura Heaton's post of May 15 on Enough's blog.

Lisa Jackson and "The Greatest Silence:Rape in the Congo" at Yale

Submitted by Nell on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 11:08am.

Lisa Jackson, preparing for her talk, with Divinity School students Uma Ramiah and Nneka Black and Maxwell Amoh, PIER Manager and Director for the Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale

JOSEPHINE X DRC

Submitted by Nell on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 6:25pm.



"RUINED" Wins 2009 Pulitzer for Drama

Submitted by Nell on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 5:31pm.

As playwright Winter Miller just said on Facebook... 'LYNN NOTTAGE WINS A WELL-DESERVED PULITZER FOR HER PLAY, 'RUINED'! YAAAAYYYYYYY. SEE IT!"

DITTO!!!

LA Times

THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO

Submitted by Jespah on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:44am.

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“The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”

A Voice for the Voiceless in Congo

Submitted by Emily Roberts on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 4:50pm.

On Tuesday morning Enough team members met with Vital Voices’ Fern Holland Award-Winner Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu. A passionate young journalist from the South Kivu province, Chouchou has been a brave and pioneering voice for survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo through radio broadcasts.

Women in Congo Speak Out About Rape Despite Taboo

Submitted by Nell on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 9:54am.
March 14, 2009

(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/14/world/AP-AF-Congo-Stop-the-Ra...)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:01 p.m. ET

 

Congo Event in NY/NJ: Call for Activists

Submitted by raiablum on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 5:39pm.

I'm planning an event to spread awareness of & raise funds for the women of the DRC in NYC/NJ this May. I'm looking for other activists in this region who would like to get on board & help me make this a successful event! E-mail me ASAP if interested at raiablum@gmail.com.

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