The Africa Canada Accountability Coalition, housed in the Liu Insitute for Global Issues, announces the launch of a new campaign NO MORE RAPE
The eastern Democratic Republic of 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.
This campaign is an urgent call out to Canadians: ABSOLUTLETLY NO MORE RAPE in the DRC. It features a new report on Canada-specific links to the DRC, 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 specific, long-standing and often exploitative relationship with the DRC. We can do better – it is time we started.
What is Canada’s role as a ‘global citizen’ in this conflict? What is Canada’s role as Canada?
Please join us at our launch at 7pm on October 14 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC, where we will tell you more on how to get involved, show a film about a Congolese rape survivor, “Lumo”, and share an initiative to pass Bill C-300, aimed at promoting CSR policies among Canadian mining, oil and gas companies in the DRC and other countries.
Admission will be by donation; proceeds will go to HEAL Africa, a holistic, community-based hospital in Goma, DRC.
Visit our website at www.acacdrcongo.org or reach us at contact@acacdrcongo.org. Please forward this to friends and colleagues who might be interested.
Thank you and we look forward to having you at our event,
Africa Canada Accountability Coalition (ACAC)
Liu Institute for Global Issues at The University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2