Congo's Anti-Rape Crusader 4.0 star rating

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-28/chouchou-namegabe-and-the-rape-crisis-in-congo/

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When Chouchou Namegabe launched a radio talk show to air the testimonies of rape survivors, she knew it would provoke outrage across Congo. And sure enough, as soon as the first interview aired, she was overwhelmed by criticism. People would yell at her on the street: “How dare you talk about sex on the airwaves?”

After all, this was a culture that didn’t even have a word for rape and had to borrow one—ubakaji—from neighboring Tanzania.

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Created by ThinkAThunk on 01 July 2010

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Heart-breaking story about the atrocities in Congo and how women are suffering in unimaginable ways

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