POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDIATE LUCHA/ Communication Unit Save The Congo! Déclaration conjointe des groupes de la société civile congolaise sur La Conférence humanitaire de haut niveau sur la République démocratique du Congo Kinshasa, Londres, le 12 avril 2018 – Nous, les soussignés groupes…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LUCHA/ Communication Unit Save The Congo! Joint Statement of Congolese Civil Society Groups on the High–Level Humanitarian Conference on the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking place tomorrow Friday 13 in Geneva Kinshasa, London, 12 April 2018 – We, the undersigned Congolese…
Asking for donations in support of Save the Congo instead of traditional gifts is an inspiring way for family and friends to mark your special occasion and help our life-saving work. More and more people are choosing to ask for donations to charity instead of gifts, and at Save the Congo we are especially grateful if you…
Giving your time, skills and creativity can make an amazing difference. We have over half a dozen of volunteering roles available which can be done from home, at Save the Congo! office or out and about in the community. As a volunteer with Save the Congo!, you’ll receive on-going support, guidance and training from your designated…
Yellow Sunday is a grassroots effort dedicated to increasing public awareness of the killings that continue to engulf Congo, mobilise people worldwide in support of the Congolese’s fight for peace and justice and, above all, to remind those left at the mercy of warlords and militia gangs tyrannising Congo that they are not alone. Initiated…
Senator Russell Feingold, the U.S. special envoy working to stabilize Africa’s Great Lakes region, will speak at the U.S. Institute of Peace on February 24 following his latest visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He returned days ago from the DRC, where he pressed the government to deliver on its commitment to take…
Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP Secretary of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH Wednesday, June 29th, 2014 Dear Mr Hague, International Criminal Tribunal for Congo Ten years ago this June, 16 000 Congolese women were raped in a single weekend when Laurent Nkunda and…
INTRODUCTION This page outlines the focus of Save the Congo’s #48AnHour campaign, a social advocacy and mobilisation initiative dedicated to engaging parliamentarians, religious leaders, student–led organisations and people from all walks of life, online and offline, for the next 4 months – starting from March 26th to July 17 16th – to amplify and contribute towards UN…
Sir Andrew Stunell MP takes the ‘Get Cross – Stop the Rape’ in support of #48AnHour
Lord Alton of Liverpool takes the ‘Get Cross – Stop the Rape’ in support of Save the Congo’s #48AnHour campaign.
Every Minute One Woman is Rape in Congo
48 Women are Raped in Congo Every Hour
Rapist penetrate minds; seeping semen down bloodlines Controlling bodies with sex from extremities Soulless holding the holes were governments placed their batteries Perpetrators of battery, declaring manhood over bleeding vaginas Religious men who say amens before they sacrifice Offering up virginities in the name of mobile phone parts Women losing ownership of body parts, men flipping…
48 women are raped in the Congo alone every hour. Sign now to end this! Little Marie was only 13 years old when she was caught by a militia group and taken into the bush where she was repeatedly abused for 8 endless months. Every single minute, one woman is being mercilessly raped in the…
As part of our #48AnHour campaign, which was launched on Wednesday 26th, Alliance Deputy Leader Naomi Long, MP, tabled an Early Day Parliamentary Motion (EDM 1180: Tackling Warzone Rape in Congo and Beyond) with cross party support and states to help raise awareness of the use of rape as a weapon of war in Congo and in other…
As part of Save the Congo campaign: “The G8 Time to Save the Congo“, our founder, Vava Tampa, together with Friends of the Congo‘s Spokesperson, Kambale Musavuli; President of the National Union of Student, Liam Burns; former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes; Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Nathalie Bennett; Filmmaker and director of Blood in the…
As part of Save the Congo’s campaign: ‘The G8 Time to Save the Congo‘, Vava Tampa with 16 parliamentarians, including the former Chair of the Conservative party, Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville CH; former UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG; the founding Chair of the APPG on the Great Lakes,Baroness King…
