The Rumpus.net » City of Joy http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:38:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The City of Joy http://therumpus.net/2010/01/the-city-of-joy/ http://therumpus.net/2010/01/the-city-of-joy/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:30:24 +0000 Seth Fischer http://therumpus.net/?p=44150 “This is not rape as people in the West understand it. This is a weapon of war, a deliberate strategy designed to destroy our communities by leaving our women disabled and ostracised from their families and neighbours.”– Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor who treats rape victims and is helping to build a place called “The City of Joy,” a town especially built for women to “heal, rebuild and learn new skills to take out into the world again.”

You should really, really read this article.

]]> “This is not rape as people in the West understand it. This is a weapon of war, a deliberate strategy designed to destroy our communities by leaving our women disabled and ostracised from their families and neighbours.”– Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor who treats rape victims and is helping to build a place called “The City of Joy,” a town especially built for women to “heal, rebuild and learn new skills to take out into the world again.”

You should really, really read this article. It made me cry.

Here’s more with some ways to help, if you’re interested, which you should be. This is the deadliest and most violent conflict since World War II, and no one seems to have noticed.

Update: It turns out Kristof just wrote a very good column on the Congo, too.

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