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10 December: Presentation of the campaign Challenging the Silence |
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10 December, International Human Rights Day, women from the Democratic Republic of Congo, victims of one of the most serious humanitarian crisis worldwide are coming to The Hague, house of the International Criminal Court, to present their demands.
Herewith WorldCom Foundation and LolaMora productions invite you to attend the presentation in the Netherlands of "Challenging the Silence" a media campaign against sexual violence, together with Cordaid, Radio Nederland Wereldroemp, Trócaire and Norwegians´ People Aid (Angolese Section).
The meeting is at Nieuwspoort Venue in Den Haag between 14:00 - 14:50 p.m.
Between 1998 and 2003, more than 40.000 women had been raped in the East of DRC alone. Today, although a formal peace was signed in 2002, peace for the east part of DRC was not assured and that’s means the number of raped women continuing; violence against women in DRC is a security issue.
The Association of Women Journalists in South Kivu (East of DRC) AFEM-SK joined the Worldcom-LolaMora media campaign in 2006, Chouchou Namegabe, is the President. She and the jurist, Jolly Kamuntu, are coming to The Hague to presents the demands and recommendations of the victims to the International Criminal Court, the Dutch Government and the European organizations. Read more on the Gender Justice Website |
 | LolaMora was born in the South; it could not have been any other way. After a journey through the Rif –North of Morocco– and many testimonies taken from old and new emigrants... We reached the Other Shore of the Mediterranean, where we came up with the name for the multimedia production company. |
However, there was already another Lola Mora in the XIX century, a woman also divided between two shores, this time those of the Atlantic Ocean. A transgressor, she fought against the conventions of her time. She was the first South American sculptress; pioneer, inventor, researcher and urban developer; writer and forerunner on cinematography and TV. Lola Mora lived in Italy until she decided to return to her native Argentina, where the sensuality of her work and her bisexuality gained her numerous enemies. The women that form LolaMora’s production company work to produce information-communication which shows the diversity and complexity of all facts and phenomena that surround us. LolaMora Producciones is based on the notion that there is a general need for responsible media sensitized to social issues. And to generate ideas and to favour the exchange of experiences and knowledge, we carry out: research, radio and video productions, advocacy and lobby campaigns and workshops for journalists. Under the shadow of the multimedia productions, we are looking for producing and broadcasting debates, so that some subjects do not remain abstract, but they provoke a public reaction and useful bridges between civil society and media. LolaMora wants to create images originating from and with The Others; to break stereotypes and to pass on realities from different-angles-different-positions. Any topic is subject to dissection; any concept to deconstruction. We propose the construction of images from the work of audiovisual media from the North and the South, the South and the South … We want to transmit those contrary realities. |
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Independant Radio in Congo |
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Communication is booming in the DRC With no less than 40% growth in the past few years, the Independent radio sector in the DRC has grown substantially. Mostly without - or with little - external help organisations and individuals have been setting up their local stations and in most cases a combination of local radio & television.
Two Panos/NiZA/WorldCom teams have visited local radios in 2004 to work with the local stations on a needs assessment. Jacques Soncin and Kizito Mushisi have visited the members of RATECO, the network of independent radios in the East of the DRC. Aziza Bangwene and René Roemersma visited radios in Bas-Congo and Mbuji-Mayi. On the basis of the two mission-findings an implementation plan has been designed. |
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Independent Media in Angola |
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Worldcom is engaged in a project to strengthen independent media in Angola Following on from a comprehensive feasibility study - funded and executed by Trocaire and NiZA in July 2000 - and based on the experiences of the pilot phase of this project , the above mentioned partners along with Radio Ecclesia and the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Angola have decided to proceed with a full scale project to extend Radio Ecclesia's signal nationwide. The principal aim of the project is to put in place a comprehensive broadcasting service providing independent information and radio programs to the Angolan provinces and people outside Luanda. |
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