Monday, October 8, 2007

For Women: War = Rape

Rape is a WAR Crime! Once again, we are witnessing women in war zones being raped. The latest are women in the Congo who are being brutalized.
See The New York Times article from 10/7/07 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html:

2 comments:

Dr. JAM said...

What can we do? Besides educating others we can write to the UN, to our national representatives, to the State department and tell them to get involved humanitarianly. Tell them that violence agaisnt women is unacceptable. Rape is a war crime.

Anonymous said...

Please read this article: http://www.alternet.org/sex/63349/
It's about the link between porn & war.
Our society gives the message that violence against women is normal. Maybe the laws need to be changed to make rape a hate crime. Educating men and women not to accept women being called bitches and hos would be a start.