I would like to give our courageous Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, some credit where credit is due. Since becoming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has worked hard to improve the lives of women around the world.

The mainstream media rarely covers her efforts. Here is what she is doing in the Congo and other parts of Africa to help women and girls there.
Here's one well deserved KUDOS to Hillary.

Hillary Clinton went to the Congo to give her personal support to rape survivors there. She also announced that the United States will be giving $17 million dollars to help rape survivors and to help stop these brutal rapes.

This money will be used to train doctors to treat rape victims, and to help them with the lingering emotional trauma of being brutally gang raped by so called soldiers.

The money will also supply rape survivors with mobile phones and cameras so that they can take part in documenting these violent attacks on women and girls, who have become the target of attacks in the ongoing violence there.

Some of the money will go to training a special female police force, to protect girls and women in the eastern Congo.

The United States intends to take a larger role in the peace building process, using foreign aid as an incentive to protecting women and girls from this sort of violence.

The United States will also begin regulating US mining companies which have been accused of working hand in hand with "rebel groups" who take part in rapes.

The aid can also continue to finance operations by Uganda's military, against a "rebel army" calling themselves "The Lord's Resistance Army," now based in eastern Congo.


"I feel that Hillary's trip to the Congo was a turning point," Eve Ensler, the playwright and political organizer, said in an interview with Women's eNews.

"I think it's fantastic that a Secretary of State said that rape as a strategy, as a weapon of war, is a central issue. I think that's historical."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also visited a hospital in Goma during her 11 day tour of 7 African nations. During her visit to the hospital, Secretary Clinton held a private meeting with two rape survivors.

One woman told Clinton about being raped when she was eight-months pregnant, She later miscarried. Because there was no hospital nearby, the people in her village cut out the fetus with a razor blade. These are the sorts of atrocities that the women living in this region face.

"The United States condemns these attacks, and all those who commit them and abet them," Secretary Clinton declared during a roundtable with activists in Goma, according to the Secretary of State's Web site.

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Resolve Uganda


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