Justine Masika Bihamba

Violence Against Women Worsens by the Day in the Congo

July 26, 2018

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed on the United Nations Security Council agenda for several decades, in one form or another through various peacekeeping missions. The Council regularly meets on the status of the Congo, with the most recent session occurring on July 26, 2018, concentrating on progress toward scheduled presidential and …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS

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Congolese Women Grow More Demanding of Local Governments

June 7, 2013

by Mavic Cabrera-Balleza

A global women’s organization with wide experience in peace-building recently brought together scores of prominent women from six African nations to take well-defined steps for dealing with the root causes of the persistent sexual violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Declaring that peace in eastern Congo could bring peace to the entire Great Lakes area …

Gender-Based Violence, WORLDVIEWS

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Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex

August 16, 2012

by Dulcie Leimbach

After Ruchira Gupta, an Indian journalist, produced an Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Selling of Innocents,” about trafficking of women and girls from Nepal to India, she and 22 other women, from Mumbai’s red-light district who were featured in the film, founded Apne Aap Women Worldwide in 2002. They wanted to forge a world …

Asia, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women

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Justine Masika Bihamba

Violence Against Women Worsens by the Day in the Congo

Congolese Women Grow More Demanding of Local Governments

Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex

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