Gender & Minorities

Media Release: 1st October 2010
For immediate release

British women march in Democratic Republic of Congo in solidarity with Congolese women, issue call for end to violence

Between October 14th and 17th October 2010, a Million Women Rise (MWR) delegation of British women will be attending the Third International Action of the World March of Women in Bukavu (province of South Kivu) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

African women are too often presented in scholarly and media accounts as passive, pathetic victims of harsh circumstances, rather than as autonomous creative agents making positive changes in their lives.