The Horrors I've Seen - the Congo Metal Print

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A vast country with immense economic resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been at the center of what some call "Africa's world war." This has left it in the grip of a humanitarian crisis. The five-year conflict pitted government forces, supported by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, against rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda.
Margot Wallstrom, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict recently said the Democratic Republic of Congo was the "rape capital of the world".

A host of different armed groups roam parts of eastern DR Congo and all are accused of horrific violence against women.

During the conflict women were forced to choose: ''The rebel leader asked me two things: 'Do you want us to be your husbands? Or do you want us to rape you?'"Congolese mother-of-eight Clementine speaks in a quiet and hesitant voice:"I chose to be raped." She explains: "I told myself, if I tell them that I want to be their wife, they will kill...

Dr. Esther Newman-Cohen is a highly creative Israeli-based artist. She engages in a wide range of artistic activity, including drawing, painting and woodcarving. Her subjects range from abstracts to realistic portraits and landscapes, done in a variety of media - pencil, ink, aquarelle, pastel, acrylic and oil. She also designs ketubot, Jewish marriage contracts, many of which are also posted on Fine Art America. Over the past five years she has added wood sculptures to her repertoire. Her first solo exhibits took place in Jerusalem, at the Alliance Francaise in 1989: "The Women of Jerusalem," in 1992 at the Gerard Behar Theater: "Flowers and Landscapes of Jerusalem," and in 2008 at the Jerusalem Botanical Garden: "Flowers: A Love Story."...