{"id":2607,"date":"2012-03-27T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ingeta.com\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-03-27T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:28:45","slug":"usa-supporting-congolese-victims-of-rape-rallying-on-the-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/usa-supporting-congolese-victims-of-rape-rallying-on-the-brooklyn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Supporting Congolese Victims of Rape, Rallying On The Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelmagazine.com\/TheMeasure\/archives\/2012\/03\/09\/l-tv-supporting-congolese-victims-of-rape-rallying-on-the-brooklyn-bridge\">The L Magazine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0VClWl5nFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an abnormally gorgeous day in March, and Felicit\u00e9 Nduku is marching across the Brooklyn Bridge. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people like her are also on bridges for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a>, showing solidarity and support for women who are victims of conflict across the globe. But Nduku&#8217;s cause is one that has received virtual radio silence, a fact that is horrific in the context of its scale. In 2008, the International Rescue Committee estimated that the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rescue.org\/special-reports\/special-report-congo-y\">5.4 million lives since 1998<\/a>, a conflict&#8217;s largest loss of life since World War II. But there&#8217;s something else sickening going on in the Congo, even in the war&#8217;s aftermath: to this day, militias are systematically raping women for control over minerals used to make electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a recent <em>Times<\/em> expos\u00e9, the West is now well-acquainted with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/26\/business\/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?pagewanted=all\"> the troubling factory conditions in China<\/a> due to iPad demand. But since 1996, the U.N. has put the number of women raped and brutalized because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/07\/is-your-cell-phone-fueling-civil-war-in-congo\/241663\/\">demand for the eastern DRC&#8217;s minerals used to make cell phones<\/a>, iPhones, iPads, refrigerators and other products\u2014tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold\u2014at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cts=1331320482451&amp;ved=0CCcQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fapps%2Fnews%2Fstory.asp%3FNewsID%3D28034%26Cr%3DDRC%26Cr1%3DKIVU&amp;ei=nlZaT92yH6rr0gHI9YzhDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHVqEiDJm9LZ4v4Nr0gQ6N5LidEwA\">200,000, a conservative estimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not counting on any politician, because we know that their interests shift,&#8221; Nduku says. Instead, Nduku and others are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/congoweek.org\/the-cell-out.html\">Black Out movement<\/a> for the Congo, and they are asking consumers, directly, to give up their cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people have never been to Congo, have never heard about Congo,&#8221; Judita Kalongi, another marcher, says. &#8220;But somehow, you have something that belongs to Congo. You have Congolese life and blood in the use of cell phones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I realize that the recorder that Nduku and Judita are speaking into, the one I am holding, might very well run on some of the &#8220;blood electronics&#8221; that fuel systematic rape in their home country. At the time this piece is being written, it remains a nauseating and unfinished thought.<\/p>\n<p>There are programs are operating in the DRC to empower women and counsel rape survivors. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenforwomen.org\/\">Women for Women International<\/a>, the organization sponsoring the march, runs a support and vocational training program in the DRC. To find out more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenforwomen.org\/global-initiatives-helping-women\/help-women-congo.php\">here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The L Magazine. It&#8217;s an abnormally gorgeous day in March, and Felicit\u00e9 Nduku is marching across the Brooklyn Bridge. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people like her are also on bridges for International Women&#8217;s Day, showing solidarity and support for women who are victims of conflict across the globe. But Nduku&#8217;s cause is one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,122,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ce-que-disent-les-medias","category-news-alertes","category-politique-societe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}