BUKAVU: WOMEN WILL THEY APPLY AT THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ?

22 women have applied to legislative November 28, 2011 in the electoral district of Bukavu. However, none of them was elected. These results discourage women who have ambitions to stand for election to the Provincial Government.
 "The people of the town of Bukavu has not yet trust the woman. Reason why no women were elected to represent the national electoral district of Bukavu. "These are the words of Mrs. Raisa Nsimire KIZUNGU candidate for deputy national constituency of Bukavu on behalf of the political party of the Congolese Union for the Nation (UNC). For 5 seats in the National Assembly, 154 candidates whose 22women have registered for the electoral district of Bukavu. The women hoped to see at least one woman grab one of these seats.

Rape and sexual violence as weapons

In almost the entire continent of Africa, the resurgence of tensions and the proliferation of armed conflict are visible. This situation raises serious consequences among the communities especially in women, jeopardizing peace and the development of future generations.

After more than 30 years of dictatorship and about 15 years of repetitive armed con-flicts, the DRC remains trapped in a recurring situa-tion of "neither peace" "nor war" with the result of grow-ing insecurity of people with the massive violations of hu-man rights. Each year it is more criminal than the previ-ous year.

Women face a more dramatic dimension of these wars with the perpetrated sexual vio-lence on women of all ages. Rapes and sexual violence are used by the belligerents as a weapon of war and a means of destruction of communi-ties.

SK AFEM recipients involved in the development of its Strategic Plan 2012-2014

Since Monday, January 16, rural women delegates of listening clubs participate in the workshop to develop the Strategic Plan 2012-2014 AFEM.

The nine rural women who come from eight areas of the South Kivu province came to acquire new knowledge of the Results Based Management "GAR".
They know that ultimately they are "hunters" results in their work everyday activists for democracy, good governance and gender.

Under the facilitation team AFEM, they discussed the specific contexts of their environments, problems and felt needs of their communities as well as advances or progress since their involvement in the development of their communities.
These rural women delegates of listening clubs are developing a strategic plan 2012-2014 AFEM. They promise to make restitution of the workshop in their respective communities.

The members of the community of Kabare, convinced of the relevance of political participation of women

118 candidates including 10 women were competing in the electoral district of Kabare for 4 seats in the national assembly. Following the presidential and legislative elections of November 28, 2011 National DR Congo, two women and two men were elected members of national parliaments in the electoral district of Kabare, one of eight areas of the province of South Kivu. 

This is Muderhwa NABINTU Beatrice Kabare Nsimire ELIANE; Mudumbi BIRI-EMO-IRAG Mulund Joseph and Jean-Marie Bamporiki Namegabe
After the 2006 elections and the failure of screaming women candidates at all levels, awareness campaigns and advocacy organized by feminist organizations for strategic voting of women have become so large that women and men of Kabare have appropriated the messages to see women as positions of responsibility, not only in politics but also in different spheres of life.