Briefing from ROAPE Volume 29 Number 93/94
Calvary of Women of Eastern DRC

In the eastern DRC, the traditionally low status of women, the long series of wars with the proliferation of armed groups, dramatically worsening economic conditions, collapse of the state, extremes of brutality against women which have become a norm, have brought women to a situation of acute crisis which threatens the very texture of society for the future. Chantal's story is a microcosm of women's experience in this part of DRC.