Sign the RAISE Hope for Congo Petition to the President
Add your name to this petition to ask our next president to announce his administration’s initial plan to end the scourge of violence against women and girls in eastern Congo on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2009, and then report back on his progress toward this goal one year later.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is host to the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Congolese women and girls in particular bear the vicious brunt of this crisis. Eastern Congo right now is perhaps the worst place in the world to be a woman. Used as a weapon of war, rape in Congo exists on a scale seen nowhere else in the world.
Often successful in its intent to destroy and exterminate, rape as a weapon of war is causing the near total destruction of women, their families, and their communities. Efforts to protect women and girls in the Congo are failing spectacularly. It is time to get serious about ending the conflict and protecting and empowering Congo's women.
This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.
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Valerie Hellard @ 01:42PM PT Oct 01
Women are humans too and should be treated as such!
Tricella KA @ 11:03AM PT Aug 18
Because I would like to help by doing something =] & im doing this
Steven Saczkowski @ 09:06PM PT Jul 12
Put a stop to this, why is there no action taken? Why haven't any leader's brought attention to this? Every life in this world is special, please save the lives!
Mark Alexander @ 07:34PM PT May 18
People should be dying for our pleasure
Chloe Frankel Boston, MA @ 07:57PM PT May 06
Thanks for raising awareness about this issue....the situation in the DRC is one of the most disturbing and underreported human rights crises in the world right now....here's hoping we can get it on the radar for Obama and the international community to put some effort into ending these atrocities.
Jude Lesemann @ 09:24AM PT Apr 24
I have done missionary work in Africa and know the desperate situation most of these countries are in first hand. we can't ignore them. They won;t go away...well, yes they will by starvation, AIDS, disease. Do you want that on your consciences?
Tiffany Lobo @ 12:41PM PT Apr 13
In my Psychology of Women's class I have recently learned information on the Congo and I was discussed by whats going on!
Darlene Saldana Watsonville, CA @ 03:45PM PT Apr 03
This is truly an atrocity! Too long, yes! I still can't believe genocide exists. There is something wrong and if the powers that be, don't put an end to these horrible acts then shame on us all!
Clarence Coonce @ 09:18PM PT Apr 01
The Congo has suffered enough.
Let us work to ease their suffering in the future.
Geraldine mcCrossan @ 12:13AM PT Apr 01
it has been ignored for too long - time to put a end to this