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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

Rape in War

http://dokumentarkino.no/andre/2009/rape_in_war.htm
10 March 2009, 11.38

Film screening, introduced by the director, and discussion about sexual violence in war and how to stop it.

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How to Stop it.
 Film and discussion
 
 Film screening, introduced by the director, and discussion about sexual violence in war and how to stop it. Guests from the DR Congo, Rwanda, Australia, USA as well as experts from Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 
Is the conflict in the DR Congo just a chaotic and incomprehensible inferno of murder and rape, towards which nothing can be done? Or is it possible to analyze the war and find and implement concrete actions to prevent sexual violence and torture on the scale we see in the DR Congo today?

Program:
 

18:00: Doors open
18:15: Introduction by Lisa Jackson (film director)
18:30: Film screening: The Greatest Silence:
 Rape in the Congo
20:00: Interview with Leah Chishugi, incl. video footage from the DR Congo
20:20: Break
20:30: Panel Discussion: What can the Norwegian government do to help prevent sexual violence in the DR Congo?
22:00: End

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