Saturday, October 30, 2010
Security Council was Briefed on Congo Rapes
On October 14 the United Nations Security Council was briefed on the recent rapes that happened under noses of U.N. peacekeepers. PRI'S " The World" discusses various strategies for dealing with the situation in the Congo including an interesting program that tries to address the problem through the rapists who are often children themselves. A fictionalized account of one such case is detailed in the novel Beasts of No Nation.
Congo's Lastest Horrors
News regarding rape in the Congo rarely lets up. This article from Salon details the new allegations of the rape and murder of Congolese women at the hands of Angolan government officials. It also gets into the failure of the integration of women into the peacekeeping process on the 10 year anniversary of the U.N. resolution that was supposed to make it so.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Margot Wallstrom and the Security Council
Margot Wallstrom, the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict informed the United Nations Security Council this week regarding the mass rape of men, women, and children in Kampal, Democratic Republic of the Congo that occurred this summer in areas patrolled by United Nations peacekeepers. Wallstrom has spent much of the last month touring the DRC taking testimony from victims. Wallstrom and others have found fault with the lack of resources devoted to the U.N. DRC Mission and response of the peacekeepers involved in it. While it seems like, a far away problem the Congo is becoming an increasingly important supplier of rare earth minerals to the United States.

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