Protecting the Women of Congo
Stephen Lewis : Feminism & Women
The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.

Stephen Lewis : Feminism & Women
The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.
How US financiers helped Belgium's King Leopold rape the homeland of some 20 million Africans.
Christian Parenti : Environment
A history of colonial neglect and endemic corruption has unleashed a lawless logging binge in the heart of Congo's massive woodlands.
It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.
Jan Goodwin : Feminism & Women
While the world looks the other way, sexual violence spreads in the Congo.


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