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    Posted on December 31st, 2009

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    Op-ed by Eve Ensler in Huffington Post

    Op-ed by Eve Ensler in Huffington Post

    Eve Ensler writes a searing piece about the continuing atrocities of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has been visiting the month of December. She concludes, “Over twelve years, this war, this brutally inconceivable violence has raged on. Almost six million dead. Almost 500 thousand raped. You tell the story of horror and atrocity one too many times and then you realize nothing is changing and that the world goes on getting its minerals, supporting its luxuries and the death, massacres, rapes and tortures of millions do not matter.”

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    Posted on July 7th, 2009

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    Op Ed from Eve Ensler: A Broken U.N. Promise in Congo (Washington Post)

    Op Ed from Eve Ensler: A Broken U.N. Promise in Congo (Washington Post)

    U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to report to the Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1820. What will we learn? A year after adopting the resolution, Congo remains the worst place on the planet to be a woman. Over 12 years, in a regional economic war for resources, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured, their bodies destroyed by unimaginable acts. The Security Council’s implementation of Resolution 1820 in Congo — the very place that inspired it — has been an utter failure.

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    Posted on March 6th, 2009

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    Eve Ensler in Toronto for International Women’s Day lecture

    Eve Ensler in Toronto for International Women’s Day lecture

    On 5 March 2009, Eve Ensler spoke to a packed lecture hall at Toronto Women’s College Hospital about violence against women, the bravery of the women in the Congo and the work of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women.

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    Posted on February 24th, 2009

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    The Invisible War

    The Invisible War

    New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, “For years now, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding bands of soldiers and militias have been waging a war of rape and destruction against women. This sustained campaign of mind-bending atrocities, mostly in the eastern part of the country, has been one of the strategic tools in a wider war that has continued, with varying degrees of intensity, since the 1990s. Millions have been killed.”

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    Posted on December 1st, 2008

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    Stephen Lewis and Eve Ensler in Toronto

    Stephen Lewis and Eve Ensler in Toronto

    Our book partners, Stephen Lewis and Eve Ensler, were in Toronto last week speaking about the horrific sexual violence afflicting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).