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…
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
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…
Save the Congo is calling up the UNSC to renew MONUSCO FIB mandate when it expires this March to help neutralise all negative forces, foreign or local, tyrannising Congo’s eastern regions; and to consider tougher consequences for those parties who do not cease support to armed groups operating in Congo. On the adoption of UN…