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…