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Tag: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Campus & Community
Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars
Studying at Harvard Chan School has helped graduate Benita Kayembe understand the forces that shape the health of people around the world.
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Health
Send cash, not goods, and other suggestions for giving
There is no shortage of global suffering and need, says the director of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, but you can still help.
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Health
Inoculating against misinformation
A new survey by Harvard researchers shows that trust in leaders and institutions are at a low ebb in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighting the importance of gaining trust as part of the response to the growing Ebola epidemic there.
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Nation & World
Voice of the brutalized
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researchers polled residents of a war-torn part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, finding that though many think the security situation has improved, trust in government is at a low ebb.
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Nation & World
Congo: Survivors Song
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
Congo: Couldn’t leave them behind
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
Congo: DRC History
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
Congo: Men with Guns
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
Congo: Rape as Strategy
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
The oozing fog of war
During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.
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Arts & Culture
Aftermath of a world at war
“Our World at War” photo exhibit revisits the scenes of recent conflicts, exposing a penumbra of pain, fortitude, and even joy.
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Nation & World
Looking horror in the face
Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Nation & World
Eastern Congo nexus for many conflicts
Unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern border region stems both from what the nation has and from what it lacks.
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Nation & World
Local partners critical to HHI’s work
Denis Mukwege has his hands full. So do Justin Kabanga and Maria Bard. The three each have leadership roles in nonprofits engaged in meeting the needs of people caught up in the fighting along the Rwandan border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Nation & World
Michael VanRooyen: Rebuilding places that peace abandoned
“When they put the gun in my mouth, I decided it wasn’t so ridiculous after all.”
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Nation & World
Jennifer Scott: Being there for atrocity’s survivors
Jennifer Scott worked hard to become a doctor. But when she faced the ills of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she realized her technical skills weren’t enough.
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Nation & World
Congo: Survivors sing of brutality and hope
The eastern DRC is swept up in a maelstrom of violence against women that has swirled for more than a decade. Researchers and physicians from Harvard and its affiliated hospitals are providing critical care for women fractured by their experiences.
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Nation & World
Congo: The facts of gender violence
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative are working to understand the volume and impact of gender violence by analyzing data provided by survivors.
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Nation & World
Surgeon describes horrors that ensue when rape is a ‘weapon of war’
Denis Mukwege, a recent visitor to Harvard, is slow-spoken, weary, and grave. And well he might be. For nearly a decade, Mukwege has been doctor to thousands of women raped in the course of a long civil war in south central Africa — in effect, that continent’s World War II — which has so far…