Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in DRC Destroying Women, Families, Communities

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, a film about sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), premiered yesterday on HBO. GBV is perhaps nowhere more prevalent than in the war-torn eastern provinces of the DRC, where untold numbers of women and girls—likely in the hundreds of thousands—have been … Continue reading Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in DRC Destroying Women, Families, Communities