Hillary Confronts the Horrors of Life for Women in Congo

We’re covering the secretary of state’s trip in our new International Women’s Rights channel, Women in Congo. Quickly overviewing the media’s assessment of her trip to DRC and the staggering look at women’s lives that she experienced there, I doubt that calls for prosecution of rapists will end the problem. For certain it will help, if implemented.

The Congo, like so many other regions of the world, has a political culture in which women are ‘possessions’ of men. Where women are ‘owned’, either legally or culturally, men will use them however they wish.

Let us hope that Hillary’s visit is the beginning of a better life for women in the Congo. Surely she saw yesterday, the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. A