The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 19:00 to 20:00
Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

The film shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for African Studies
Non-University Sponsors: 
Ford Institute for Human Security