Help Women Heal: International Rescue Committee

''The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world,'' said John Holmes, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. ''The sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity -- it's appalling.''

Rape is used as a weapon of war in Congo. Armed groups rape to terrorize and control women and communities and to humiliate families. It's calculated and it's brutal. The International Rescue Committee is focusing on emergency care, counseling, prevention, advocacy and other support for survivors. 

Please visit http://www.theirc.org/special-report/rape-in-congo.html to help.

More information: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/15/congo.women/index.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E4DB133CF934A35753C1A9619C8B63

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2006/11/12/koinange.congo.rape.crisis.cnn

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/10/18/1018congorape.html