Launch of ‘Stop Rape in Conflict’ campaign on 11th May, 2012.
Mairead Maguire and Ann Paterson from the Peace People attended the official launch of the campaign in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (8th May – 14th May, 2012) “WE PEOPLE OF THE DRC MUST STOP RAPE OURSELVES” (Julienne Lusange, Sofepadi, at launch of Stop Rape in conflict Campaign, Kinshasa,DRC. 11th May, 2012). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 8th May, 2012, Ann Patterson and I travelled to the Kinshasa, in DRC, to join Yee Htun, Co-ordinator of the Nobel Womens Initiative International Campaign to Stop Rape in Conflict, and help launch the International campaign, to ‘Stop rape in Conflict’. This was being launched simultaneously in four Countries: Colombia, Kenya, Burma and the DRC in May, 2012. We had been invited to DRC by Julienne Lusenge of SOFEPADI, an NGO Organization working to support survivors of…