Should Women Be Allowed In Congo

Freda Adler once said, “Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.” Women should not have to go thru so much pain and agony, and our voices should be heard and expressed throughout the countries. After watching India’s Daughter, a young college student that just wanted to live her dream to become something great, her life span was short lived due to 6 men raping her, by pulling her intestines out, and thrown off a moving bus.

“…the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children released a report on their investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of West African refugee children in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Their interviews with 1500 men, women, and children refugees revealed that girls between the ages of 13 and 18 were sexually exploited by male aid workers, many of whom were employed by national and international non-governmental agencies (NGOs) and the UN, and also by UN peacekeepers and community leaders.” (Hynes 2004:

During the Rwandan genocide, some rapes occurred recurrently throughout a timespan. “Sexual enslavements occurred when a woman was detained, typically in the house of an Interhamwe, and subjected to repeated sexual assaults over a period of days,” (Mullins 727). These kinds of rapes belong in their own category because of the added element of confinement and intent to continually rape and therefore, harm. An Interhamwe soldier named Rafiki, personally sought out one Tutsi woman whom he had

Rape is one of, if not the most, wretched acts of domination. It is an expression of violence and power that exceeds all others in its blasphemy. Unfortunately, those in battles have historically utilized rape as a strategic weapon of war for centuries. As Major General Cammaert states, “Any armed group that is using rape as a weapon and a tactic of war is destroying the community. The women are booted out of the community . . .

There have been a lot of recent tragedies in Africa and a lot of attentions have been giving to the female victim. In this article Lara Stemple want the same attention to be giving to the male victims as well. As stated the reports of male rape in Congo has been made clear that wartime sexual violence is not limited to women and girls. As of now, the United Nation has the situation at hand and they overlook sexual assault of men and boy. Lara Stemple wants us to see the reason while sexual violence against men occasionally make the news. Sexual violence is ‘any violence, whether physical and/or mental, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality’ (Lewis, 2009). An example is the sexual abuse and humiliation that took place in Iraq at the Abu Ghraib prison stunned the world.

In The Book of Negroes, Fanta was raped on the ship, wheatear she resisted or not it was forced upon her and their was nothing she could do, she was oppressed physically and mentally. Women are now even raped in Pakistan on the streets with no justice what so ever. A woman in Pakistan “Gang-raped and paraded naked in public on the orders of her tribe’s elders” (Dennis 2016), after she was raped she was paraded on the streets and no one took a stand. “8 years old and she was a survivor of rape” (Zakaria 2015), no one took a stand and tried help her, the men that raped the 8-year-old got released with no action against them. Unfortunately, the only way she could get society’s attention and to make stand “She set herself on fire outside the police station, which had so callously denied her justice” (Zakaria 2015).

Mass Rape is an atrocious violation of person’s human rights. Testifying in an international court can be extremely dangerous and a horrific experience for many people. Whether it is being humiliated and degraded or having ones life threatened , a survivor of rape should always have the option of testifying against their attacker. The international criminal justice system has greatly improved since the Nuremberg trials when rape survivors weren’t allowed to testify or be in court because the courts did not “want a bunch of crying women in the courtroom” .

To analyze rape as a weapon appears to be complex. This complexity is justifiable because of different factors, which come into play at different scales or levels. However, competing theories can still attempt to explain rape as a weapon with its pervasiveness in the DR Congo. Humphreys (2017), provides theoretical insights into how to understand and analyze the motives of players fighting for power or dominion. In regard to these theoretical insights, Humphreys (2017), has identified strategy without strategizing, psychological games, and the tragedy of the commons among others. These theoretical insights focus on the predictions of the actors’ actions. In this study, however, I will use psychology game to explain the pervasiveness

The reading of Sudan, Darfur Rape as a Weapon of War; Sexual violence and its consequences, was interesting in reading about the stories of rape victims. Is tragedy how this tool is used to humiliate entry population by raping their women and girls. The ethnic cleansing in Sudan is greatest humanitarian crisis, I don’t know why the world isn’t doing anything (Sudan, Darfur Rape reading), The report talked about how they have the evidence of massive Human Rights violations and they know the government is behind this, however, the world is not doing anything about. The report stated they have talked to the victims of rape but the world has turned their blind eye about the problem. Rape as a weapon of war for so long in many countries around the

Warchild informs us that "There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today." That’s 250,000 children suffering and being beaten and sexually abused, psychological traumatized, there is so much we can do to help prevent that by just being more aware of the world around us or even donating as much as 10 dollars by which can provide educations, food and just the basic need that will let them understand there are better ways to live them being an abused child solider. A 14-year-old girl abducted by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone shares her heartbreaking testimony to faze.ca “I’ve seen people get their hands cut off, a ten-year-old girl raped and then die, and so many men and women burned alive . . . So many times I just cried inside my heart because I didn’t dare cry out loud.” And she was only of thousands of kids living thought that as their daily lives, never knowing if they will be alive tomorrow. Unicef report that the LRA has abused children as young as 5 years old. And those who cannot carry their load while hiking for nights and days without sleep or food and keep peace with each other are killed on the spot. When you decide that you made the wrong choice like most teenagers and children do and want to leave is severely punished. Around northern Uganda over the last 15 years 10,000 children have been abducted. Child

In conclusion, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a beautiful country with great potential, although it just has problems that are almost impossible to recover from. The traditions, arts, cultures and backgrounds that they own are one of a kind. However knowing how impoverished they are right now, they can’t regain what they

In chapter 8 of Global Issues, Local Arguments, June Johnson exposes the concept that women are being used as a tactic and war as well as being sexually abused. In “Defending Human Rights: Human Trafficking, Forced Child Labor, and Rape as a Weapon of War, (384-439),”developing countries women are being treated unfairly as well having little say in the government leading to a delay in fixing the issue. Johnson also includes “Ten Radical Acts for Congo the New Year (434-41).” The stake holders include National Governments, International Advocates, and civil society for they are struggling to balance the controversies about human right without getting fully involved. The visual shows a girl holding a for sale sign to evoke peoples emotion this will in turn raise awareness. In “A Human Connection,” Victoria Herradura speaks about people how ignore the issues due to them feeling “safe.” Herradura states, “I realize that we often need exposure to the outside world to feel the need to help globally (393).” In the international voices it is shown that women are making progress in the equality in some places. It is also known that women are still unequal but the social gap is shrinking. The hot spot is the democratic of republic of Congo, where women’s treatment are bringing up conflict. These issues were caused by the end of slavery and thus leading to people needing a new source of workers. The effects of the Ill treatment consist of children and women dying. Many stake holders

Holt explained, “For women such as Amma the situation is made worse by the Bosnian government's reluctance to recognize women as civilian victims of war” (Holt, 2005, para. 11). The law enforcement is negligent when it comes to proper enforcement, which can be seen in the case of the women within Rwanda, Bangladesh, and Bosnia. Moreover, it seems that within these countries there is not only a lack of enforcement within women’s rights, there also seems to be no education regarding these issues. While these concerns are of high importance, another daunting question remains, where are the global organizations when these crimes against humanity occur?

The simplest way in my opinion is by making yourself knowledgeable in the area. Researching testimonials and historical evidence has helped me partially bear witness to this dilemma, yet it puts me in a predicament because I know all of these things, yet I can’t take any preventative measures. With my present power, I don’t think I can help increase awareness on the local, let alone global level. It makes me feel powerless, like how the women must have felt. However, I will continue to bear witness by learning about the horrible events that women experienced and continue to experience today, for that is all I can do presently. I strongly feel that if those women had the courage to speak out against the violence despite knowing about the repercussions they would have to face, I have no excuse for not speaking out. In the future sometime, I would like to join an organization devoted to raising awareness about this dehumanizing tactic, so that I will be able to make use to this knowledge that I have gained and will continue to gain and free myself from the agony that despite knowing, I continued to remain

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman and is one of the least developed countries in the world. A 2011 American Journal of Public Health report found that more than 400,000 women surveyed in 2007 reported that they were raped in the previous twelve months, adding up to 1,150 rapes per day. In a 2007 survey, 1.69 to 1.80 million women between the ages of fifteen and forty-nine reported being raped in their lifetime. Members of the Congolese army, rebel groups, militias, and other groups continue to use sexual violence against women and children as a systematic tactic of war to destroy communities. Sexual violence in the DRC is worse today than in Rwanda during the genocide.