A screening of the film, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” will be held on Tuesday, March 10 at 8 p.m. in 101 Jewett Hall.
The film was the winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize and was produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson.
Shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the film breaks the silence of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Jackson is one of tens of thousands of women and girls who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.
The film has been an inspiration for 2008 U.N. Resolution, classifying rape as a weapon of war.
This film is one of many Women’s History events taking place during this month on the Fredonia campus.
Related article:
"Women's Rights as Human Rights."
