Thanks to those who were able to attend our campaign launch event.
Keep your eyes and ears open for our next event.
PAST EVENTS Campaign Launch Event: Oct. 14, 2009
Please join us at our launch at at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC where we will tell you more on how to get involved, show a film about a Congolese rape survivor "Lumo", and share an initiative to pass Bill C-300, aimed at promoting Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, policies among Canadian mining, oil and gas companies in the DRC and other countries.
Admission will be by donation, proceeds will go to HEAL Africa.
a holistic, community based hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, where women and girls who are victims of violent, conflict-related rape can go for treatment.
recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year old Lumo Sinai, couldn't wait to have children and start a family. But when she crossed paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attacked her, she was left with a fistula - a condition that has rendered her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiance and cast aside by her family, Lumo found her way to the one place that may save her: a hospital for rape survivors on the DRC-Rwanda border, HEAL Africa:
www.gomafilmproject.org
Vancouver lawyer, Export Development Canada Policy Analyst, and long-time Amnesty International member, will be speaking on Bill C-300.
This bill would require the federal Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to create "Corporate Accountability" guidelines for mining and oil and gas companies that are consistent with international environmental best practises and Canada's commitments to international human rights standards.
Companies who fail to comply with the "guidelines" would experience specified negative For example, the bill would tie Export Development Canada financing to compliance with the guidelines, and constrain the Canada Pension Plan from investing in companies that fail to live up to the guidelines.
7 pm on October 14
HEAL AFRICA
LUM0
Graham Allen
Bill C-300
NO MORE RAPE
Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, Where Are You?
Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
NO MORE RAPE campaign: Research-based advocacy by
The Africa Canada Accountability Coalition's Gender Security Project
