Last week during our Human Rights Week, we published a series of posts and one of them was about Congo. We shared with you an article by Darcy Ataman, founder and CEO of Make Music Matter, music producer and guest lecturer at the University of Winnipeg.
In The Art of Resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ataman explains the importance of the Make Music Matter’s Healing in Harmony music therapy program. Today we want to share with you another article on Congo and violence against children, published on TRIAL International website.
Jacqueline Fall, an expert medical consultant for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), has always worked with children and their families. Affected by the assaults committed in Kavumu, she joined the Congolese players working on the case to contribute to the psychological care brought to the young victims.
My 17 years of experience with children have been used to help the young victims of Kavumu. I work at Gonesse hospital, in the suburbs of Paris which is where I met a medical examiner from PHR. After attending my consultations, she asked if I would be interested in using my experience to help the young Kavumu victims. That is how I found myself joining the local players.
I have not been surprised by the details of the Kavumu case since sexual assaults on children are part of my everyday work. The distinctive aspect of this case, compared with those that I encounter, is the kidnappings and torture executed massively and systematically. Here, the crimes seem to have been committed as part of a defined plan. It is the serial nature of these assaults which contributes to the extremely complex character of the case.
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