Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 29 No. 93/94 Calvary of Women of Eastern DRC

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Calvary of the Women of Eastern DRC
Author:	Victoria Brittain
Location:	Vol.29 No.93/94 (Sep/Dec 2002), pp595-601

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.

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