FOTC : Sunday, March 8, Vigil in Support of the Women of the Congo

By | 07/03/2009 |

MouseOutEffect();
}" style="display: none;" onmouseover="function onmouseover(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" id="contentbutton" onmousedown="function onmousedown(event) {
MouseOverClick();
}" class="BORDERREG" onmouseup="function onmouseup(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" />

MouseOutEffect();
}" style="display: none;" onmouseover="function onmouseover(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" id="attachbutton" onmousedown="function onmousedown(event) {
MouseOverClick();
}" class="BORDERREG" onmouseup="function onmouseup(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" />

MouseOutEffect();
}" style="display: none;" onmouseover="function onmouseover(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" id="soundbutton" onmousedown="function onmousedown(event) {
MouseOverClick();
}" class="BORDERREG" onmouseup="function onmouseup(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" />

MouseOutEffect();
}" style="display: none;" onmouseover="function onmouseover(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" id="soundchevron" onmousedown="function onmousedown(event) {
MouseOverClick();
}" class="BORDERREG2" onmouseup="function onmouseup(event) {
MouseOverEffect();
}" />

PRESS
RELEASE
March/06/2009

For Immediate
Release
Contacts:
Carrie Crawford
Friends of the Congo
202.584.6512

Nita Evele
Congo Global
Action
202.884.9783
info@friendsofthecongo.org

Break the
Silence – End the Violence

International Women's
Day

Global vigil in Washington, D.C., New York,
Boston, Oakland, Washington, San Francisco, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Vashon
Island, and several other cities throughout the United States, Canada,
Brussels, Belgium, North and South Kivu in Congo and Europe gathering in
solidarity with the women of the Congo as they overcome the challenges of war,
rape and sexual violence.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8,
2009

Nearly six million people have died in the
ongoing Congolese war since 1996 and hundreds of thousands of women and girls
raped and mutilated. 45,000 Congolese continue to die each month. Congolese
women who recently arrived from the Congo will show films, provide testimonies
and present reports about the impact of conflict and rape on women and children
in the Congo.

WHERE: Washington,
DC

Vigil
Featuring Batala
Women Drummers

Time: 3 PM – 5:00
PM
Location: DuPont
Circle
Massachusetts Avenue, Connecticut Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, P
Street and 19th Street
Click here for directions!

Film Screening & Discussion: The Anguish of
War in the Congo, By Sylvie Maunga Mbanga
Time: 6 PM- 8:30 PM
Location: Reeves Center, 2000 14th Street, NW
14th and U Streets, NW
Click here for directions!

SPEAKERS: Dr. Roger Luhiriri, Physician, Panzi
Hospital, DRC & filmmaker, Sylvie Maunga Mbanga, Beatrice Mundela,
President, Bondeko Organization

Pulitzer
Prize author, Alice Walkersent her love and support to the women of the
Congo… "To my beautiful sisters in the Congo,
I write to you today to send you my love, my deep wishes for your peace and
happiness, for the prosperity of your suffering country, and all of its people,
animals and vegetation. Read entire message from Alice Walker to the
women of the Congo: www.friendsofthecongo.org/reports/alice_walker.php

Visit Friends of the Congo: www.friendsofthecongo.org or www.congoglobalaction.org

Posted in Appels & offres d’emploi - en, News - en

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply