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The Africa-Canada Accountability Coalition announces the launch of a new campaign
NO MORE RAPE.

Conflict

The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the worst place in the world to be a woman or a girl. Over the last decade, a complex and ongoing series of conflicts, described as the world’s “deadliest crisis since World War II,” has unleashed unprecedented violence on the bodies of women and girls in this region. The brutality is extreme: three month old babies to eighty-year-old women have been raped. Women and girls are raped with such frequency that the Congolese invented a new word to describe the phenomenon: révioler, to re-rape.

Action

This campaign is an urgent call out to Canadians: ABSOLUTLETLY NO MORE RAPE in the Congo. It features a new report on how Canada must respond, a video call for action, and a website with all the tools you need to stop the on-going crisis. Our corporations, our government and we ourselves have a long-standing and often exploitative relationship with the DRC. We can do better – it is time we started.

Launch

A hard launch will take place October 14, at the Liu Institute where we will tell you more on how to get involved, and launch an initiative to pass Bill 300, on CSR in the Congo. JOIN US!

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