In May, 2011 over one hundred remarkable women from around the world met in Montebello, Canada to develop strategies to stop the use of rape as a weapon in conflict situations. The discussions were rich, the stories shared were intense, and the strategies discussed were diverse and concrete. Nobel ...read more
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Abigail Disney is a filmmaker, philanthropist and scholar. She produced the critically acclaimed Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicling how Liberian women peacefully ended the civil war in their country.
In 2010 I was fortunate enough to go the DRC with the renowned peace activist ...read more
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We want to say thank you to all of you who have been following our #endrapeinwar coverage, and who found time to TAKE A STAND against sexual violence in conflict. There has been an amazing outpouring of support in the past week -- our message of action to end rape in war has travelled around the ...read more
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Betsy Kawamura is the founder of Women4NonViolence in Peace & Conflict Zones.
I am on my way back to Oslo, Norway from the Nobel Women's Initiatives' three-day conference in Quebec on stopping sexual violence in war. There was intense dialogue on African and Mid-Eastern regions as expected; ...read more
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Did you know that up to 500,000 women were raped during the Rwandan genocide?
Did you know that over 64,000 women were raped in Sierra Leone?
Did you know that over 40,000 women were raped in Bosnia-Herzegovina?
Did you know that over 1,000 women are raped every day in Sudan and ...read more
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Watch Wangu Kanja from Kenya talk about rape as truly a global issue and finding allies from all over the world. Wangu Kanja is the founder and executive director of the Wangu Kanja Foundation.
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Mairead Maguire speaks about empowering people for innovation and social change.
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The official Twitter hashtag for our conference has been #endrapeinwar. As much as we wish that everyone in the world understood the realities of rape in the specific context of war, sadly we know that many do not. If we all understood the horrors of rape in war, it is hard to imagine that anyone ...read more
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