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V-Day : Fighting Congo’s ills with education and an army of women

Women's WorldWide Web

02/12/2011

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we celebrate the achievements of another V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. “Eve Ensler, the feminist playwright who wrote ‘The Vagina Monologues‘ and who has worked closely with Congolese women”, tells The New York Times her audacious plan, “build an army of women”, to address the problem of sexual violence in RD Congo. 
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Andrea is an author, journalist and academic. She has studied, taught or held fellowships at Oxford, Yale and Princeton. Andrea has written fiction and non-fiction for numerous publications, including Vogue, Granta, The Times, The TLS and The Guardian. She is the author of the award-winning and internationally bestselling memoir "Once in a House on Fire". Andrea works to raise awareness about domestic violence and to promote literacy and education.

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