UN Action, UNICEF & V-Day Campaign Launch: Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource - Power to Women and Girls of the DRC.

Source: 
UNICEF
Duration: 
Friday, November 23, 2007 - 19:00
Countries: 
Africa
Central Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Human Rights
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Initiative Type: 
Campaigns

UN Action, under the leadership of UNICEF and with co-sponsor V-Day, launched the Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women and Girls of the DRC campaign on 24 November 2007 in Bukavu, DRC.

The event launch was organized in collaboration with V-Day, the Ministry for Women's and Family Affairs (CONDIFFA), the UN Mission for Congo (MONUC) and several other United Nations Agencies.

Madam Olive Kabila, the First Lady of the DRC, actively participated in the launch. The president of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, pledged to use his office to maintain the issue of sexual violence on the national agenda.

The campaign calls attention to the wide-scale atrocities committed against women and girls in Eastern DRC and demands an end to the impunity with which these crimes are committed.

For more information about the campaign, please click HERE