Women in Congo - Weapons of War as seen on 60 Minutes

As seen on 60 Minutes: Women for Women International reports from DR Congo in concert with Anderson Cooper's piece for 60 Minutes, "War Against Women" featuring Women for Women International's program in the DR Congo. Also, please watch "The Greatest Silence" trailer and the film which features our Congo program as well. www.womenforwomen.org

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[musyokat]

Can you imagine experiencing the trauma of rape and then the unbearable trauma of your husband abandoning you ?!!!!!!!!!

The way us Africans think baffles me! Our thinking is the main reason why our continent is a continent of basket cases and banana republics.

[kelseyjhale]

women are people too men jsut think there just something to leav ein the kitchen pregnant & barefoot.

as soon as i get my new job i'll donate too!

[steffylvmk89]

@chickenflu4 America has done enough they need to step back and worry about their own damn business. They have to leave africans and in this case congolese people alone. All this mess hapenning in Congo right now is because of the US so there is no need for them to act like they want to help with few donations as if they were not responsable for this in the first place. Congolese people will change their own futur not western countries espacially the US. 

[tweeetme]

gay !

[chickenflu4]

It's a shame that developed countries like America giving aid to terrorist countries like Pakistan where money goes for expanding nuclear arsenals but nothing is done for impoverished countries of Africa! Even if fraction of effort is put here , it will change their future !

[asanteosu5]

@musyokat I find ur language problematic AND stereotypical . Let me tell u that as a fellow African, rape being used as a weapon and misogyny IS not unique to Africans. I really wish you hadn't said that. you just reinforced dehumanizing stereotypes about us, you should have done a BETTER analysis and theorized that structural inequality and chaos is are paradigms that cause great atrocities

[gasergurl]

even if u do give money how do u now dey r usin it 4 da rite purpose. not sayin dat i dnt caree buh ppl r evil nd dey dnt caree

[ashken79]

This is evil!

[Halstead2009]

THE UN IS USELESS!!!

[OokamiG]

@alkhazan

yes even now, one year after your comment

[OctoBox]

There's more profit for the U.N if the rape continues -- the people reporting on this (the non-african) make as much as do the ones buying the diamonds, oil, and gold from the rapist-soldiers and rapist-rebels.

This is easily preventible.

Arm the Women -- Give "aid" and money in that country only to women and never to men, gov't, soliders, or rebels.

When women control the wealth and the weapons then the rape will stop.