CLAREMONT COLLEGES

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

Center for Women and Men, University Residential Student Community

Monday, November 9, 2009 : 7:00pm to 9:00pm

University Park Campus
Waite Phillips Hall
B27

Free


A thought-provoking screening is followed by an engaging discussion about sexual violence against women in the Congo.

Since 1998, a brutal war has shaken the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than four million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: tens of thousands of women and girls kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. The world knows nothing of these women.

Join us for a viewing of The Greatest Silence, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and inspiration for a 2008 U.N. resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war.

Sponsored by the the Graduate and Professional Students Senate, the University Residential Student Community, the Viterbi Graduate Student Association, the Chemistry Department, the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Department, and the USC Center for Women and Men
Jazminne Orozco
(714) 315-2396

http://www.usc.edu/org/gpss/gpsaw2009