RAISE Hope for Congo Speakers' Tour
UN Goodwill Ambassador Jimmie Briggs and world-renowned activist John Prendergast will be speaking at UMass Amherst about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a selective college speakers' tour. The conflict in the DRC has been dubbed by some as a "genocide against women," where rape is the primary weapon of war. These two prominent experts, as well as other distinguished speakers, will be lecturing on the basis of the conflict and its particular implications for the women of the DRC.
The event is co-sponsored by the UMass Save Darfur Campaign and by the UMass Amnesty International Chapter.
